What are the political and aesthetic dimensions of video art, documentary, and global cinema in contemporary image culture? Lynes makes visible how sites of political struggle, exploitation, and armed conflict can be interpreted through a feminist politics of location, attentive to the frictions and flows within transnational circuits of exchange.

Focuses specifically on video as a central medium for both archiving events and experimenting with modes of representation and reception, and studies not only on how artists and documentarians record political, social, and economic conditions, but also how feminist politics are mediated in culture.