Women Filmmakers of the African and Asian Diaspora: Decolonizing the Gaze, Locating Subjectivity - Hardcover

Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 080932119X ISBN 13: 9780809321193

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997

Synopsis

An examination of the works of six contemporary black and asian women filmmakers. It also includes a detailed introduction and a chapter entitled "Other Voices", documenting the work of other black and asian filmmakers. The book analyzes the key films of Zeinabu Irene Davis, "one of a growing number of independent black women filmmakers who are actively constructing 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.

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Review:

"This book sheds a necessary light on women film-makers and videographers whose existence and works have been overlooked in previous book-length studies of women filmmakers."--Mark A. Reid, author of "Post--Negritude Visual and Literacy Culture" This book sheds a necessary light on women filmmakers and videographers whose existence and works have been overlooked in previous book-length studies of women filmmakers. Mark A. Reid, author of "Post-Negritude Visual and Literacy Culture"" This book sheds a necessary light on women filmmakers and videographers whose existence and works have been overlooked in previous book-length studies of women filmmakers. Mark A. Reid, author of "Post-Negritude Visual and Literacy Culture"" "This book sheds a necessary light on women film-makers and videographers whose existence and works have been overlooked in previous book-length studies of women filmmakers."--Mark A. Reid, author of "Post--Negritude Visual and Literacy Culture"

About the Author:

Gwendolyn Audrey Fosteris Willa Cather Endowed Professor of English and Film Studiesat the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and is the author of fourteen books. "Performing Whiteness: Postmodern Re/Constructions in the Cinema," was named an outstanding title in the humanities for 2004 by "Choice." Foster's most recent book is "Disruptive Feminisms: Raced, Classed, and Gendered Bodies in Film."?"

About this edition

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 080932119X
• ISBN 13: 9780809321193
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208