Female Agency and Documentary Strategies (eBook, PDF)

Subjectivities, Identity and Activism
Redaktion: Ulfsdotter, Boel; Rogers, Anna Backman

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Produktbeschreibung

This book, like its twin volume Female Authorship and the Documentary Image, centres on pressing issues in relation to female authorship in contemporary documentary practices. Addressing the politics of representation and authorship both behind and in front of the camera, a range of international scholars now expand the theoretical and practical framework informing the current scholarship on documentary cinema, which has so far neglected questions of gender. Female Agency and Documentary Strategies centres on how self-portraiture and contemporary documentary manifestations such as blogging and the prevalent usage of social media shape and inform female subjectivities and claims to truth. The book examines the scope of authorship and agency open to women using these technologies as a form of activism, centring on notions of relationality, selfhood and subjectivity, and includes interviews with Hong Kong based activist filmmaker and scholar Vivian Wenli Lin and Spanish documentarist Mercedes Alvarez.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474419482
• Artikelnr.: 72421169

Autorenporträt

Boel Ulfsdotter is an independent fine arts scholar specialised in screen studies, currently affiliated with the Department of Cultural Sciences at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Anna Backman Rogers is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Gothenberg, Sweden.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Kate Nash
Introduction Boel Ulfsdotter and Anna Backman Rogers
Section one: NEW MEDIA AND ACTIVISM
Chapter 1: KRISTOPHER FALLON: "The Pencil of Identity: Instagram as
Inadvertent (Female) Autobiography"
Chapter 2: CADENCE KINSEY: "Archetype and Authenticity: Reflections on
Amalia Ulman's Excellences and Perfections"
Chapter 3: MONICA TITTON: "Blogging the Female Self: Authorship,
Self-Performance and Identity Politics in Fashion Blogs"
Section two: RELATIONALITY, SELFHOOD AND SUBJECTIVITIES
Chapter 4: GAIL VANSTONE: "'Scriptrix Narrans' - Digital Documentary
Storytelling's Radical Potential"
Chapter 5: KIM MUNRO: "Hybrid Practices and Voice-Making in Contemporary
Female Documentary Film"
Chapter 6: KERREEN ELY-HARPER: "Record Keeping: Family Memories on Film -
Rea Tajiri's History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashig and Wisdom Gone
Wild"
Chapter 7: ANNA BACKMAN ROGERS: "Not Because My Heart Is Gone; Simply The
Other Side": Francesca Woodman's Relational and Ephemeral Subjectivity at
the Limit of the Image"
Chapter 8: CARLA MAIA: "Other Women: Thinking Class and Gender in
Contemporary
Interview: "Visualising Our Voices": Hong Kong Scholar and Film Director
Vivian Wenli Lin, in Conversation With Boel Ulfsdotter"
Section three: IDENTITY POLITICS OF DOCUMENTARY
Chapter 9: ANNA MISIAK: "From Visceral Style to Discourse of Resistance":
Reading Alka Sadat's Afghan Documentaries on Violence Against Women"
Chapter 10: JOHN A. RILEY: "Documenting Georgia in Transition: The Films of
Salome Jashi and Nino Kirtadze"
Chapter 11: LIDIA MERAS: "Profession: Documentarist. Underground
Documentary Making in Iran"
Interview: "Reflecting Through Images": The Documentaries of Mercedes
Alvarez by Linda Ehrlich