Female authorship and the documentary image : theory, practice and aesthetics / edited by Boel Ulfsdotter and Anna Backman Rogers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Women in the director's chair : the female gaze in documentary film / Lisa French -- New Day Films : collective aesthetics and the collection / Elizabeth Coffman and Erica Stein -- More than one / Sharon Daniel -- The final projects of Hannah Wilke and Jo Spence : a dialogue between Elena Crippa and Anna Backman Rogers -- The feminist voice : improvisation in women's autobiographical filmmaking / Gabrielle Mcnally -- Speaking about or speaking nearby? documentary practice and female authorship in the films of Kim Longinotto / Rona Murray -- A politics of nearness : uses of montage and haptics in documenting cultural experiences of communities of India / Aparna Sharma -- The other, the same : towards a metamodern poetics with Heddy Honigmann / Annelies van Noortwijk -- The memories of Belleville Baby : autofiction as evidence / Boel Ulfsdotter -- To::For::By::About::With::From:: Towards solid women : on (not) being addressed by Tracey Moffatt's Moodeijt Yorgas / Sophie Mayer -- Constructing an intimate sphere through her own female body : Naomi Kawase's documentary films / Wakae Nakane -- Celebrity/activist/photographer : Mia Farrow / Catherine Summerhayes -- Being a woman documentary maker in Taiwan : an interview with Singing Chen and Wuna Wu / Chris Berry.

Addressing the politics of representation and authorship both behind and in front of the camera, a range of international scholars explore the pressing issues in relation to female authorship in contemporary documentary practices.

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