ABOUT THE BOOK
The Female Gaze in Documentary Film – an International Perspective makes a timely contribution to the significant rise in interest in recent times in the status, presence, achievements and issues for women in contemporary screen industries. The central preoccupation of the book is to interrogate what might constitute a ‘female gaze’, an inquiry that has had a long history in filmmaking, film theory and women’s art. It fills a gap in the literature which to date has not substantially examined the work of female documentary directors. Moreover, research on sex, gender and the gaze has been relatively infrequently the subject of scholarship on documentary film, particularly in comparison to narrative film or television drama. A distinctive feature of the book is that it is based on interviews with significant female documentarians from Europe, Asia and North America.
French, Lisa. 2021 The Female Gaze in Documentary Film – An International Perspective, Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-030-68093-0. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68094-7