Women and Global Documentary: Practices and Perspectives in the 21st Century

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In what innovative ways are women documentary filmmakers seeking to prioritize and promote political awareness, alternative modes of allyship, and advocacy for those most marginalized by patriarchy and global capitalism Women and Global Documentary answers the urgent need to re-evaluate not only the significance of womens documentary practices and their contributions to feminist world-building, but also the state of documentary studies as it engages with political, aesthetic, and industrial developments arising as a result of an increasing numbers of womens documentaries. Bringing together a range of diverse practitioners and authors, the essays analyse alternative and emergent networks of production and reception in the Global South. They go on to investigate the filmmaking practices of North American indigenous filmmakers, filmmakers from sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Afghanistan, Europe, and Japan. In doing so, they evaluate the global, institutional, curatorial, and artistic dynamics that have impacted womens documentary practices in the 21st century, and their implications for scholarly debates about womens authorship, political subjectivity, and documentary representation.

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Women and Global Documentary is more than works by, about, and for women. Through portraits of iterative collaboration, deep listening, unglamorous labour, transnational solidarity, and struggle against settler-colonial, patriarchal, and environmental violence, this volume reframes feminist documentary as a process-based emergent form and rehearsal-ground for a more generous, hospitable world. -- Pooja Rangan * Professor of English in Film and Media Studies, Amherst College, USA *
An exciting and innovative study of feminist world building through global documentary cinema by women. -- Parvati Nair * Professor of Hispanic, Cultural and Migration Studies, Queen Mary, University of London, UK *

Author Bio

Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Old Dominion University, USA. She is author of Women and Documentary Film in Contemporary Iran (forthcoming, 2023). She has published widely on Iranian cinema. Shilyh Warren is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, USA. She is the author of Subject to Reality (2019) and has published widely on documentary cinema and feminist theory.