Gendering History on Screen

Julia Erhart is Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Creative Arts at Flinders University. She researches in the areas of contemporary women filmmakers and feminist and LGBT representations in film and television and is the recipient of a grant from the Australian Academy of the Humanities (2016), a Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning from the Australian Office for Learning and Teaching (2014), and a fellowship from Fulbright (2000).

• Introduction1. Women Writing History Through Film2. Reclaiming Undeserving Women: Contemporary Female Biopics3. Feminist First-Person Documentaries: Migration, Internment, Reconciliation4. Revisiting Resistance and Occupation in Holocaust Films5. Gendering Iraq and Afghanistan War MoviesConclusionBibliographyIndex

`Drawing on insightful readings of a diverse array of films including Monster, Nadar, La rafle/The Round Up and Zero Dark Thirty, Erhart has crafted an eminently readable study of how female directors reshape historical film to make room for women's perspectives’ - Julianne Pidduck, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, the University of Montreal and author of Contemporary Costume Film