The female gaze in documentary film : an international perspective / Lisa French.

The Female Gaze in Documentary Film an International Perspective makes a timely contribution to the significant rise in interest in recent times in the status, presence, achievements and issues for women in contemporary screen industries. It examines the works, contributions and participation of fem...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	French, Lisa, 1961- (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Subjects:	Documentary films > Production and direction. Women motion picture producers and directors. Documentaires > Production et réalisation. Productrices et réalisatrices de cinéma. Filmmakers.
Physical Description:	xvii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

Introduction. PART 1. Chapter 1
Women and documentary
Chapter 2. The Female Gaze. Chapter 3 Aesthetics and the influence of gender
Chapter 4 Feminisms, Feminist Theory and Documentary Practice
Part 2 Case Studies : female documentary directors in focus
Chapter 5
Documentary as Artform : Pirjo Honkasalos Cinematic Poetics
Chapter 6. Transnational Feminism in the Cinema of Kim Longinotto
Chapter 7. Nishtha Jain : An Auto-ethnographic and a Postcolonial Feminist Gaze
Chapter 8
Marie Mandy : Female Subjectivity and Aesthetics
Chapter 9
A View from the Margins : the films of Nancy D Kates
Chapter 10
Gillian Armstrong : the line between fact and fiction.