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 such as curators, festival programme directors or fundraisers. It does not shy away from questioning the relations of power in the practice of...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ruckteschell, Katharina von, 1962- (writer of foreword.), Schuhmann, Antje (Editor), Mistry, Jyoti (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Online Access:Full text available:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary: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 such as curators, festival programme directors or fundraisers. It does not shy away from questioning the relations of power in the practice of filmmaking and the power invested in the gaze itself. Who is looking and who is being looked at, who is telling women's stories in Africa and what governs the mechanics of making those films on the continent? The interviews with film practitioners such as Tsitsi Dangarembga, Taghreed Elsanhouri, Jihan El-Tahri, Anita Khanna, Isabel Noronhe, Arya Lalloo and Shannon Walsh demonstrate the contradictory points of departure of women in film - from their understanding of feminisms in relation to lived-experiences and the realpolitik of women working as cultural practitioners. Jyoti Mistry, Antje Schuhmann, Nobunye Levin, Dorothee Wenner and Christina von Braun are some of the contributors.
Physical Description:1 online resource (264 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781776141654
Access:Open Access