Nahid Persson Sarvestani

Towards A Liquid Authorship

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Av Boel Ulfsdotter, Sweden) Ulfsdotter, Boel (Reader in Film and Media Studies, Gothenburg University

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This monograph offers a critical study of Nahid Persson Sarvestani's documentary practice across three decades. Highlighting the filmmaker's at times limited opportunities to record visible evidence in situ, the book frames her involvement with new documentary film technology and its influence on her practice. From a discursive point of view, Boel Ulfsdotter introduces the concept liquid authorship to position Persson Sarvestani's work by sparring the films' production history against different iterations of post-millennium documentary theory. In a bid to move the boundaries of traditional documentary forward, the author also studies how Persson Sarvestani applies first-person filmmaking in relation to the subject of documentary, including the relationship between director and enunciator. The filmmaker's documentary output is reflected against the tenets of feminist theory. To establish their discursive urgency, Boel Ulfsdotter unpicks the films' fabric to comment on their aesthetic merits, narrative composition, including the impact of voice-over, vis-a-vis contemporary documentary practice.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-08-31
Mått138 x 216 x 13 mm
Vikt363 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieVisionaries: The Work of Women Filmmakers
Antal sidor184
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474479875

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Boel Ulfsdotter is Reader in Film Studies at the Faculty of Humanities at Gothenburg University, Sweden. Her areas of research are rooted in theoretical perspectives on female subjectivity in visual and popular culture, with special focus on documentary cinema, visual style, and screen costume. She has also published on contemporary women’s power dressing, fashion exhibition practice, and screen costume. Boel Ulfsdotter’s latest scholarly publication is Documenting Fashion (2023), co-edited with Elena Caoduro. In 2018, Ulfsdotter co-edited a twin-volume on the topic of female authorship for Edinburgh University Press: Female Authorship and the Documentary Image, and Female Agency and Documentary Strategies.

List of figuresAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I. Prostitution and Polygamy: Two close-ups of patriarchy1. Not Accented Cinema: Prostitution Behind the Veil (2004)2. Hegemonic Patriarchy and polygamy: Four Wives, One Man (2007)Conclusion Part IPart II. New narrative and formal interventions3. Auteurism in Accented Cinema mode: The Queen and I (2008)4. First signs of collective authorship: My Stolen Revolution (2013)Conclusion Part TwoPart III. Authorial divestiture in the 21st century5. Expanding her documentary apparatus: Be My Voice (2021)6. Polyvocal political activism as matrix for the liquid documentary: Son of a Mullah (2023)Conclusion Part ThreeSumming UpReferencesFilmographiesIndex