Female Agency and Documentary Strategies

Examines the politics of female authorship in relation to contemporary documentary practices This book, like its twin volume Female Authorship and the Documentary Image, 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 Agency and Documentary Strategies centres on how self-portraiture and contemporary documentary manifestations such as blogging and the prevalent usage of social media shape and inform female subjectivities and claims to truth. The book examines the scope of authorship and agency open to women using these technologies as a form of activism, centring on notions of relationality, selfhood and subjectivity, and includes interviews with Hong Kong based activist filmmaker and scholar Vivian Wenli Lin and Spanish documentarist Mercedes Alvarez. Contributors Anna Backman Rogers, University of Gothenburg Linda C. Ehrlich, Writer, Teacher, Editor Kerreen Ely-Harper, Creative Media Researcher and Filmmaker Kristopher Fallon, University of California, Davis Cadence Kinsey, University of York Carla Maia, Centro Universitario UNA Lidia Meras, Film Historian and Researcher Anna Misiak, Falmouth University Kim Munro, Filmmaker, Artist and Teacher Kate Nash, University of Leeds John A. Riley, Woosong University Monica Titton, University of Applied Arts and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna Boel Ulfsdotter, Independent Scholar Gail Vanstone, York University, Toronto