Female Authorship and the Documentary Image: Theory, Practice and Aesthetics

[Female Authorship and the Documentary Image]'This book serves as map and compass in the first concerted investigation of a crucial field of documentary studies as yet severely neglected. Mobilising a range of dynamic conceptual frameworks, it brings major paradigm shifts into focus, with compelling insights into women's documentary production globally and timely directions for future explorations.'Professor Laura Rascaroli, University College CorkThis book, like its twin volume Female Agency and Documentary Strategies, centres on pressing issues in relation to female authorship in contemporary documentary practices. Addressing the politics of representation and authorship both behind and in front of the camera, a range of international scholars now expand the theoretical and practical framework informing the current scholarship on documentary cinema, which has so far neglected questions of gender.Female Authorship and the Documentary Image engages with the relationship between female documentary filmmakers and the documentary image. With a thematic focus on the documentary image directly, within the more traditional arenas of theory and practice and especially within the context of gaze and author theory, the book also considers more philosophical questions of aesthetics, home and identity within the contexts of female subjectivity, globalisation and trauma. In addition, the book includes a dialogue on two key photographers, Hannah Wilke and Jo Spence, as well as an interview with Taiwanese documentary filmmakers Singing Chen and Wuna Wu.Boel Ulfsdotter is an independent scholar of Media Aesthetics and Visual Culture, currently affiliated with the Department of Cultural Sciences at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Anna Backman Rogers is a Senior Lecturer in Feminist Philosophy and Visual Culture at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.For more information please visit www.femaleauthorship.orgCover image: film still from Belleville Baby (Dir. Mia Engberg, Sweden, 2013). Courtesy Mia Engberg/StoryCover design: www.paulsmithdesign.com[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN [vol 1] 978-1-4744-1944-4ISBN [vol 2] 978-1-4744-1947-5Barcode