Gaze Regimes : Film and Feminisms in Africa / Jyoti Mistry, Antje Schuhmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mistry, Jyoti, editor.

Schuhmann, Antje, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performing arts.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2005.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Gaze Regimes is a bricolage of essays and interviews showcasing the experiences of women working in film, either directly as practitioners or in other areas such as curators, festival programme directors or fundraisers. It does not shy away from questioning the relations of power in the practice of filmmaking and the power invested in the gaze itself. Who is looking and who is being looked at, who is telling women's stories in Africa and what governs the mechanics of making those films on the continent?The interviews with film practitioners such as Tsitsi Dangarembga, Taghreed Elsanhouri, Jihan El-Tahri, Anita Khanna, Isabel Noronhe, Arya Lalloo and Shannon Walsh demonstrate the contradictory points of departure of women in film from their understanding of feminisms in relation to lived-experiences and the realpolitik of women working as cultural practitioners. Jyoti Mistry, Antje Schuhmann, Nobunye Levin, Dorothee Wenner and Christina von Braun are some of the contributors.

Contents:

1 African Women in Cinema: An overview / Beti Ellerson Ellerson, Beti 1

2 'I am a feminist only in secret' / Taghreed Elsanhouri Elsanhouri, Taghreed, Christina von Braun Braun, Christina von, Ines Kappert Kappert, Ines 10

3 Staged Authenticity: Femininity in photography and film / Christina von Braun Braun, Christina von 18

4 'Power is in your own hands': Why Jihan El-Tahri does not like movements / Jihan El-Tahri El-Tahri, Jihan, Jyoti Mistry Mistry, Jyoti, Antje Schuhmann Schuhmann, Antje 33

5 Aftermath - A focus on collective trauma / Djo Tunda wa Munga Munga, Djo Tunda wa, Rumbi Katedza Katedza, Rumbi, Antje Schuhmann Schuhmann, Antje, Jyoti Mistry Mistry, Jyoti 44

6 Shooting Violence and Trauma: Traversing visual and social topographies in Zanele Muholi's work / Antje Schuhmann Schuhmann, Antje 55

7 Puk Nini - A Filmic Instruction in Seduction: Exploring class and sexuality in gender relations / Antje Schuhmann Schuhmann, Antje, Jyoti Mistry Mistry, Jyoti 81

8 I am Saartjie Baartman / Nobunye Levin Levin, Nobunye 97

9 Filmmaking at the Margins of a Community: On co-producing Elelwani / Jyoli Mistry Mistry, Jyoli 118

10 On Collective Practice and Collected Reflections / Shannon Walsh Walsh, Shannon, Arya Lalloo Lalloo, Arya, Jyoti Mistry Mistry, Jyoti 133

11 'Cinema of resistance' / Isabel Noronha Noronha, Isabel, Max Annas Annas, Max, Henriette Gunkel Gunkel, Henriette 148

12 Dark and Personal / Anita Khanna Khanna, Anita 161

13 'Change? This might mean to shove a few men out' / Anita Khanna Khanna, Anita, Antje Schuhmann Schuhmann, Antje, Jyoti Mistry Mistry, Jyoti 168

14 Barakat! means Enough! / Katarina Hedrén Hedrén, Katarina 174

15 'Women, use the gaze to change reality' / Katarina Hedren Hedren, Katarina, Jyoli Mistry Mistry, Jyoli, Antje Schuhmann Schuhmann, Antje 182

16 Post-colonial Film Collaboration and Festival Politics / Dorothee Wenner Wenner, Dorothee 188

17 Tsitsi Dangarembga: A manifesto / Tsitsi Dangarembga Dangarembga, Tsitsi, Jyoti Mistry Mistry, Jyoti, Antje Schuhmann Schuhmann, Antje 201.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2016 Backlist Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 100387

ISBN:

9781868148561

OCLC:

987449580

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access