Overview
- Features interviews with leading female documentary directors from the contemporary industry globally
- Considers whether the films of individual women directors might be interpreted as offering aesthetic approaches that are informed specifically their gender.
- Examines the documentary form in relation to gender and argues that there is a 'female gaze' in this form
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About this book
The Female Gaze in Documentary Film – an International Perspective makes a timely contribution to the recent rise in interest in the status, presence, achievements and issues for women in contemporary screen industries. It examines the works, contributions and participation of female documentary directors globally. The central preoccupation of the book is to consider what might constitute a ‘female gaze’, an inquiry that has had a long history in filmmaking, film theory and women’s art. It fills a gap in the literature which to date has not substantially examined the work of female documentary directors. Moreover, research on sex, gender and the gaze has infrequently been the subject of scholarship on documentary film, particularly in comparison to narrative film or television drama. A distinctive feature of the book is that it is based on interviews with significant female documentarians from Europe, Asia and North America.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Women’s Documentary Practice, Theory and Histories
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Front Matter
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Case Studies: Female Documentary Directors in Focus
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Lisa French is Dean of RMIT University’s School of Media and Communication and Professor of Screen and Media. She has published extensively on women in film, produced documentaries, is co-chair of a UNESCO 19 global university research network on media, gender and ICTs, and is a member of Screen Australia’s Gender Matters Taskforce.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Female Gaze in Documentary Film
Book Subtitle: An International Perspective
Authors: Lisa French
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68094-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-68093-0Published: 05 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-68096-1Published: 05 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-68094-7Published: 04 July 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 275
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Documentary, Gender Studies