Gaze Regimes : Film and feminisms in Africa /

Gaze Regimes : Film and feminisms in Africa /

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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...

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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:
Women in motion pictures.
Motion pictures > Social aspects.
Motion pictures, African.
Motion picture industry > Social aspects.
Marginality, Social, in motion pictures.
Feminism.
ART > Film & Video.
Films, cinema.
Film, TV and radio.
The arts.
Marginalite au cinema.
Cinema > Aspect social > Afrique.
Feminisme > Afrique.
Cinema > Industrie > Aspect social > Afrique.
Femmes au cinema.
Motion pictures > Social aspects > Africa.
Feminism > Africa.
Motion picture industry > Social aspects > Africa.
Africa.
Electronic books.
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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.

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