Female Authorship and the Documentary Image: Theory, Practice and Aesthetics

ISBN-13: 9781474419444 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 224 str.

Boel Ulfsdotter;Anna Backman Rogers

Opis

Addressing the politics of representation and authorship both behind and in front of the camera, a range of international scholars explore the pressing issues in relation to female authorship in contemporary documentary practices.

Spis treści

Preface by Belinda Smaill
Introduction by Boel Ulfsdotter and Anna Backman Rogers

Section one: DOCUMENTARY PRACTICES
Chapter 1: LISA FRENCH: "Women in the Director’s Chair: The Female Gaze in Documentary Film"
Chapter 2: ELIZABETH COFFMAN AND ERICA STEIN: "New Day Films: Collective Aesthetics and the Collection"
Chapter 3: SHARON DANIEL: "The Female Auteur and Voice: A Personal Context"
Interview: "The Final Projects of Hannah Wilke and Jo Spence": A dialogue between Elena Crippa and Anna Backman Rogers

Section two: DOCUMENTARY THEORIES
Chapter 4: GABRIELLE MCNALLY: "The Feminist Voice: Improvisation in Women’s Autobiographical Filmmaking"
Chapter 5: RONA MURRAY: "Speaking About or Speaking Nearby? Documentary Practice and Female Authorship in the films of Kim Longinotto"
Chapter 6: APARNA SHARMA: "A Politics of Nearness: Uses of Montage and Haptics in Documenting Cultural Experiences of Communities of India"

Section three: FEMALE AUTHORSHIP AND GLOBAL IDENTITIES
Chapter 7: ANNELIES VAN NOORTWIJK: "The Other, The Same: Towards a Metamodern Poetics with Heddy Honigmann"
Chapter 8: BOEL ULFSDOTTER: "The Memories of Belleville Baby: Autofiction as Evidence"
Chapter 9: SOPHIE MAYER: "To::For::By::About::With::From:: Towards Solid Women: On (not) Being Addressed by Tracey Moffatt’s Moodeijt Yorgas"
Chapter 10: WAKAE NAKANE: "Constructing an Intimate Sphere Through Her Own Female Body: Naomi Kawase’s Documentary Films"
Chapter 11: CATHERINE SUMMERHAYES: "Celebrity/Activist/Photographer: Mia Farrow"
Interview: "Being a Woman Documentary Maker in Taiwan": An interview with Singing Chen and Wuna Wu, by Chris Berry