Gaze regimes film and feminisms in Africa

Gaze Regimes is a bricolage of essays and interviews showcasing the experiences of women working in film, either directly as practitioners or in other areas as curators, festival programme directors or fundraisers. It does not shy away from questioning the relations of power in the practice of filmm...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Mistry, Jyoti, editor (editor), Schuhmann, Antje, editor
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Johannesburg : Wits University Press 2015.
Edition:1st ed
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009419808206719
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: By way of context and content
  • 1 African Women in Cinema: An overview
  • 2 'I am a feminist only in secret'
  • 3 Staged Authenticity: Femininity in photography and film
  • 4 'Power is in your own hands': Why Jihan El-Tahri does not like movements
  • 5 Aftermath: A focus on collective trauma
  • 6 Shooting Violence and Trauma: Traversing visual and social topographies in Zanele Muholi's work
  • 7 Puk Nini: A Filmic Instruction in Seduction: Exploring class and sexuality in gender relations
  • 8 I am Saartjie Baartman
  • 9 Filmmaking at the Margins of a Community: On co-producing Elelwani
  • 10 On Collective Practice and Collected Reflections
  • 11 'Cinema of resistance'
  • 12 Dark and Personal
  • 13 'Change? This might mean to shove a few men out'
  • 14 Barakat! means Enough!
  • 15 'Women, use the gaze to change reality'
  • 16 Post-colonial Film Collaboration and Festival Politics
  • 17 Tsitsi Dangarembga: A manifesto.