Female Agency and Documentary Strategies : : Subjectivities, Identity and Activism / / Boel Ulfsdotter, Anna Backman Rogers.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Ulfsdotter, Boel,; Backman Rogers, Anna,
• MitwirkendeR: Ehrlich, Linda,; Ely-Harper, Kerreen,; Fallon, Kris,; Kinsey, Cadence,; Maia, Carla,; Merás, Lidia,; Misiak, Anna,; Munro, Kim,; Nash, Kate,; Riley, John A.,; Rogers, Anna Backman,; Titton, Monica,; Ulfsdotter, Boel,; Vanstone, Gail,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 24 B/W illustrations

Examines the politics of female authorship in relation to contemporary documentary practicesThis 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.ContributorsAnna Backman Rogers, University of GothenburgLinda C. Ehrlich, Writer, Teacher, EditorKerreen Ely-Harper, Creative Media Researcher and Filmmaker Kristopher Fallon, University of California, DavisCadence Kinsey, University of YorkCarla Maia, Centro Universitário UNALidia Merás, Film Historian and ResearcherAnna Misiak, Falmouth UniversityKim Munro, Filmmaker, Artist and Teacher Kate Nash, University of LeedsJohn A. Riley, Woosong UniversityMonica Titton, University of Applied Arts and at the Academy of Fine Arts in ViennaBoel Ulfsdotter, Independent Scholar Gail Vanstone, York University, Toronto

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE. NEW MEDIA AND ACTIVISM -- 1. THE PENCIL OF IDENTITY: INSTAGRAM AS INADVERTENT (FEMALE) AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- 2. ARCHETYPE AND AUTHENTICITY: REFLECTIONS ON AMALIA ULMAN’S EXCELLENCES & PERFECTIONS -- 3. BLOGGING THE FEMALE SELF: AUTHORSHIP, SELF-PERFORMANCE AND IDENTITY POLITICS IN FASHION BLOGS -- PART TWO. RELATIONALITY, SELFHOOD AND SUBJECTIVITIES -- 4. ‘SCRIPTRIX NARRANS’: DIGITAL DOCUMENTARY STORYTELLING’S RADICAL POTENTIAL -- 5. HYBRID PRACTICES AND VOICE MAKING IN CONTEMPORARY FEMALE DOCUMENTARY FILM -- 6. RECORD KEEPING: FAMILY MEMORIES ON FILM – REA TAJIRI’S HISTORY AND MEMORY: FOR AKIKO AND TAKASHIGE AND WISDOM GONE WILD -- 7. ‘NOT BECAUSE MY HEART IS GONE; SIMPLY THE OTHER SIDE’: FRANCESCA WOODMAN’S RELATIONAL AND EPHEMERAL SUBJECTIVITY AT THE LIMIT OF THE IMAGE -- 8. OTHER WOMEN: THINKING CLASS AND GENDER IN CONTEMPORARY BRAZILIAN DOCUMENTARY FILM -- INTERVIEW: ‘VISUALISING OUR VOICES’ – HONG KONG SCHOLAR AND FILM DIRECTOR VIVIAN WENLI LIN IN CONVERSATION WITH BOEL ULFSDOTTER -- PART THREE. IDENTITY POLITICS OF DOCUMENTARY -- 9. FROM VISCERAL STYLE TO DISCOURSE OF RESISTANCE: READING ALKA SADAT’S AFGHAN DOCUMENTARIES ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN -- 10. DOCUMENTING GEORGIA IN TRANSITION: THE FILMS OF SALOMÉ JASHI AND NINO KIRTADZE -- 11. PROFESSION: DOCUMENTARIST: UNDERGROUND DOCUMENTARY MAKING IN IRAN -- 12. ‘REFLECTING THROUGH IMAGES’: THE DOCUMENTARIES OF MERCEDES ÁLVAREZ -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX