Women and Global Documentary

Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Old Dominion University, USA. She has published widely on women and 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.

• Introduction – Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi (Old Dominion University, USA) and Shilyh Warren (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)I: Documentary Initiatives as Feminist Worldbuilding1. Women Make Movies Globally Patricia White (Swarthmore College, USA)2. Transforming Documentary Film Cultures in East Africa: Judy Kibinge and Docubox Lindiwe Dovey (SOAS University of London, UK)3. Caravan: Rerouting Transnational Feminist Collaboration Networks Amal Shafek (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)II: Rereading Public and Private Connections through Documentary4. Feminist Animated Documentary: New Ways of Confronting Violence against Women Shilyh Warren and Christine Veras (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)5. Affective Relations and First-Person Enunciation: Daughters/Filmmakers Reformulate the Latin American Documentary Lorena Cervera (Arts University Bournemouth, UK)6. Politicizing Familial Space: Women’s Post-Fukushima Documentaries as the Creation of Counterpublics Wakae Nakane (University of Southern California, USA)III: Reimagining Documentary Activism7. Iranian Women’s Biographical Documentaries as Sites of Recognition and Advocacy: An Ecofeminist Reading Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi8. Que se vayan ellos: Beyond Resilience in Puerto Rican Social Justice Documentary Zaira Zarza (University of Montreal, Canada)9. The Art of Work Is a Work of Art: Feminist Theater and Live Documentary Kim Munro (University of South Australia, Australia)IV: Documentary Voice and Feminist Perspectives10. “Are We on the Same Page Here?”: Moving Beyond “Us” and “Them” in nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up and Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy Gail Vanstone (York University, UK)11. Making Documentary Media: Approaches to the Deep Image Aparna Sharma (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) and Priya Sen (Documentary Filmmaker, New Delhi, India)12. Feminism as Documentary Method: A Conversation Irene Lusztig (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA), Hannah Jayanti (Documentary Filmmaker, USA), Noor Afshan Mirza (Independent Filmmaker, UK), Rosa-Johan Uddoh (Interdisciplinary Artist, UK), Andrea Luka Zimmerman (Independent Filmmaker, Fugitive Images, UK)ReferencesIndex

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.