Women Filmmakers of the African & Asian Diaspora

Women Filmmakers of the African & Asian Diaspora
Title Women Filmmakers of the African & Asian Diaspora PDF eBook
Author Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
Publisher SIU Press
Pages 196
Release 1997-05-01
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 9780809321209

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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 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.

Women Filmmakers

Women Filmmakers
Title Women Filmmakers PDF eBook
Author Jacqueline Levitin
Publisher Routledge
Pages 512
Release 2016-02-29
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1136743057

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This wide-ranging volume of new work brings together women filmmakers and critics who speak about what has changed over the past twenty years. Including such filmmakers as Margarethe von Trotta, Deepa Mehta, and Pratibha Parmar, and such critics as E. Ann Kaplan, this comprehensive volume addresses political, artistic, and economic questions vital

Black Women Directors

Black Women Directors
Title Black Women Directors PDF eBook
Author Christina N. Baker
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Pages 175
Release 2022-03-18
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1978813333

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For far too long, the cultural and historical narratives about film have overlooked the contributions of Black women directors. This book remedies this omission by highlighting the trajectory of the culturally significant work of Black women directors in the U.S., from the under-examined pioneers of the silent era to the contemporary Black women directors in Hollywood.

Women in African Cinema

Women in African Cinema
Title Women in African Cinema PDF eBook
Author Lizelle Bisschoff
Publisher Routledge
Pages 384
Release 2019-11-14
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1351854704

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Women in African Cinema: Beyond the Body Politic showcases the very prolific but often marginalised presence of women in African cinema, both on the screen and behind the camera. This book provides the first in-depth and sustained examination of women in African cinema. Films by women from different geographical regions are discussed in case studies that are framed by feminist theoretical and historical themes, and seen through an anti-colonial, philosophical, political and socio-cultural cinematic lens. A historical and theoretical introduction provides the context for thematic chapters exploring topics ranging from female identities, female friendships, women in revolutionary cinema, motherhood and daughterhood, women’s bodies, sexuality, and spirituality. Each chapter serves up a theoretical-historical discussion of the chosen theme, followed by two in-depth case studies that provide contextual and transnational readings of the films as well as outlining production, distribution and exhibition contexts. This book contributes to the feminist anti-racist revision of the canon by placing African women filmmakers squarely at the centre of African film culture. Demonstrating the depth and diversity of the feminine or female aesthetic in African cinema, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of African cinema, media studies and African studies.

Noteworthy Francophone Women Directors

Noteworthy Francophone Women Directors
Title Noteworthy Francophone Women Directors PDF eBook
Author Janis L. Pallister
Publisher Lexington Books
Pages 237
Release 2011
Genre Art
ISBN 1611474434

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"Noteworthy Francophone women directors : a sequel is a comprehensive guide that acts as both a teaching tool and a directory for research. The book begins by following films released after the publication of Pallister and Hottell's last volume, Francophone women film directors, in 2005, and stops after the Cannes film festival in 2010."--Book cover.

Far-Flung Families in Film

Far-Flung Families in Film
Title Far-Flung Families in Film PDF eBook
Author Daniela Berghahn
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Pages 233
Release 2014-08-20
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0748677879

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This book fills this gap and provides an essential resource for academics and researchers with an interest in cinematic representations of the family and transnational cinema.

Women and Islamic Cultures

Women and Islamic Cultures
Title Women and Islamic Cultures PDF eBook
Author
Publisher BRILL
Pages 390
Release 2013-10-31
Genre Law
ISBN 9004264736

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The first decade of the 21st century witnessed an explosion in scholarly and public interest in women and Islamic cultures, globally. From misguided media representations, to politically motivated state manipulations, to agenda-driven Islamist movements, to feminist and international NGO projects – the subject and image of Muslim women has become iconic and riveting. This volume unpacks the representations, motivations, agendas, and projects by focusing on the advances in scholarly research on women and Islamic cultures in the first decade of the 21st century. The editors of the pioneering Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures bring together leading scholars, discipline by discipline, to critically analyze state of the art research on women and Islamic cultures from 2003-2013. Editors for this volume include Suad Joseph, Marilyn Booth, Bahar Davary, Hoda Elsadda, Sarah Gualtieri, Virginia Hooker, Amira Jarmakani, Therese Saliba, and Elora Shehabuddin. Contributors include Suad Joseph, Azza Basarudin, Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh, Amira Jarmakani, Sajeda Amin, Kamran Rastegar, Robina Mohammad, Annika Rabo, Ahmed Ragab, Vannessa Hearman, Bahar Davary, Michelle Hartman, Hoda Elsadda, Nerina Rustomji, Amaney Jamal, Vickie Langohr, Hania Sholkamy, Zayn Kassam, Rachel Rinaldo, Samar Habib.