Female agency and documentary strategies : subjectivities, identity and activism /

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Imprint:Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
©2018
Description:xiv, 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11428509
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Other authors / contributors:Ulfsdotter, Boel, editor.
Backman Rogers, Anna, editor.
ISBN:9781474419475
147441947X
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Notes on the Contributors
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. 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 2. 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 Takashig 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 3. 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 Alvarez
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index