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Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image

by Erika Balsom
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780262544528
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: MIT Press
  • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press
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  • Pages: 320
  • Original Price: GBP 36.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 1012 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Film / History & Criticism, Feminism & Feminist Theory, and Film & Video

Intersectional, intergenerational, and international perspectives on nonfiction filmmaking by women, generously illustrated, with film stills and other images.

This book offers intersectional, intergenerational, and international perspectives on nonfiction film- and videomaking by and about women, examining practices that range from activist documentaries to avant-garde experiments. Concentrating primarily on the period between the 1970s and 1990s, the contributions revisit major figures, contexts, and debates across a polycentric, global geography. They explore how the moving image has been a crucial terrain of feminist struggle--a way of not only picturing the world but remaking it.

The contributors consider key decolonial filmmakers, including Trinh T. Minh-ha and Sarah Maldoror; explore collectively produced films with ties to women's liberation movements in different countries; and investigate the cinematic expressions of tensions and alliances between feminism and anti-imperialist struggles. They grapple with the need for a broader more inclusive definition of the term "feminism"; meditate on the figure of the grandmother; reflect on realist aesthetics; and ask what a feminist film historiography might look like.

The book, generously illustrated with film stills and other images, many in color, offers ten original texts, two conversations, and eight short essays composed in response to historical texts written by filmmakers. The historical texts, half of which are published in English for the first time, appear alongside the essays.

Contributors
Helena Amiradżibi, Madeleine Bernstorff, Teresa Castro, Counter Encounters (Laura Huertas Mill�n, Onyeka Igwe, Rachael Rakes), Ayanna Dozier, Forough Farrokhzad, Safi Faye, Devika Girish, Elena Gorfinkel, Haneda Sumiko, Shai Heredia, Juliet Jacques, Sarah Keller, Nzingha Kendall, Julia Lesage, Beatrice Loayza, Jana�na Oliveira, Lakshmi Padmanabhan, Yasmina Price, Elizabeth Ram�rez-Soto, Pooja Rangan, Lis Rhodes, Sara Saljoughi, Rasha Salti, Isabel Segu�, Chick Strand, Monika Talarczyk, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Fran�oise Verg�s, Claudia von Alemann, Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano, Shilyh Warren, Giovanna Zapperi

Erika Balsom is Reader in Film Studies at King's College London and the author of four books, including TEN SKIES and After Uniqueness: A History of Film and Video Art in Circulation.

Hila Peleg is Associate Curator at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin and was formerly Artistic Director of the Berlin Documentary Forum.

Balsom and Peleg are coeditors of Documentary Across Disciplines (HKW/MIT Press).

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