Women filmmakers of the African and Asian diaspora : decolonizing the gaze, locating subjectivity /

Women filmmakers of the African and Asian diaspora : decolonizing the gaze, locating subjectivity /

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Author / Creator:	Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey, author.
Imprint:	Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1997.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 177 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	African American women motion picture producers and directors. Women motion picture producers and directors -- Asia. African American women motion picture producers and directors. Women motion picture producers and directors. Asia. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11186093

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ISBN:	9781441619358 1441619356 9780809380947 0809380943 080932119X 9780809321193 0809321203 9780809321209
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-168) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	Black women filmmakers not only deserve an audience, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster asserts, but it is also imperative that their voices be heard as they struggle against Hollywood's constructions of spectatorship, ownership, and the creative and distribution aspects of filmmaking.Foster provides a voice for Black and Asian women in the first detailed examination of the works of six contemporary Black and Asian women filmmakers. She also includes a detailed introduction and a chapter entitled ""Other Voices,"" documenting the work of other Black and Asian filmmakers.Foster.
Other form:	Print version: Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey. Women filmmakers of the African and Asian diaspora. Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1997 080932119X 9780809321193

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Summary:	<p>Black women filmmakers not only deserve an audience, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster asserts, but it is also imperative that their voices be heard as they struggle against Hollywood's constructions of spectatorship, ownership, and the creative and distribution aspects of filmmaking.<p>Foster provides a voice for Black and Asian women in the first detailed examination of the works of six contemporary Black and Asian women filmmakers. She also includes a detailed introduction and a chapter entitled "Other Voices," documenting the work of other Black and Asian filmmakers.<p>Foster analyzes the key films of Zeinabu irene Davis, "one of a growing number of independent Black women filmmakers who are actively constructing in the words of bell hooks] 'an oppositional gaze'"; British filmmaker Ngozi Onwurah and Julie Dash, two filmmakers working with time and space; Pratibha Parmar, a Kenyan/Indian-born British Black filmmaker concerned with issues of representation, identity; cultural displacement, lesbianism, and racial identity; Trinh T. Minh-ha, a Vietnamese-born artist who revolutionized documentary filmmaking by displacing the "voyeuristic gaze of the ethnographic documentary filmmaker"; and Mira Nair, a Black Indian woman who concentrates on interracial identity.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (x, 177 pages) : illustrations
Format:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-168) and index.
ISBN:	9781441619358 1441619356 9780809380947 0809380943 080932119X 9780809321193 0809321203 9780809321209