{"id":2476,"date":"2021-06-22T03:38:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T03:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/?p=2476"},"modified":"2021-06-22T03:38:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T03:38:18","slug":"new-book-the-female-gaze-in-documentary-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/?p=2476","title":{"rendered":"New book: The Female Gaze in Documentary Film"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>by Lisa French, published by Palgrave Macmillan, 5 September 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Female Gaze in Documentary Film \u2013 an International Perspective <\/em>makes a timely contribution to the recent rise in interest in the status, presence, achievements and issues for women in contemporary screen industries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/tfg_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2478\" width=\"425\" height=\"622\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>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 \u2018female gaze\u2019, an inquiry that has had a long history in filmmaking, film theory and women\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Contents<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Chapter One &#8211; Introduction<\/li><li><strong>PART One &#8211; Women\u2019s Documentary Practice, Theory and Histories<\/strong><\/li><li>Chapter Two &#8211; Women and Documentary<\/li><li>Chapter Three &#8211; The \u2018Female Gaze\u2019<\/li><li>Chapter Four &#8211; Aesthetics and the Influence of Gender<\/li><li>Chapter Five &#8211; Feminisms, Feminist Theory and Documentary Practice<\/li><li><strong>Part Two &#8211; Case Studies: Female Documentary Directors in Focus<\/strong><\/li><li>Chapter Six &#8211; Documentary as Artform: Pirjo Honkasalo\u2019s Cinematic Poetics<\/li><li>Chapter Seven &#8211; Transnational Feminism in the Cinema of Kim Longinotto<\/li><li>Chapter Eight &#8211; Nishtha Jain: An Auto-ethnographic and a Postcolonial Feminist Gaze<\/li><li>Chapter Nine &#8211; Marie Mandy: Female Subjectivity and Aesthetics<\/li><li>Chapter Ten &#8211; A View from the Margins: The Films of Nancy D Kates<\/li><li>Chapter Eleven &#8211; Gillian Armstrong: The Line Between Fact and Fiction<\/li><li>Chapter Twelve &#8211; Conclusion: Rendering Female Reality<\/li><li><strong>Glossary<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Index<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lisa French<\/strong>\u00a0is Dean\u00a0of RMIT University\u2019s School of Media and Communication\u00a0and 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\u2019s Gender Matters Taskforce.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Lisa French, published by Palgrave Macmillan, 5 September 2021 The Female Gaze in Documentary Film \u2013 an International Perspective makes a timely contribution to the recent rise in interest in the status, presence, achievements and issues for women in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/?p=2476\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2479,"href":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions\/2479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afiresearch.rmit.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}