Contents

The Female Gaze in Documentary Film – an International Perspective

Table of Contents

  • Introduction

Part One

Women’s Documentary Practice, Theory and Histories

  • Women and Documentary
  • The ‘Female Gaze’
  • Aesthetics and the Influence of Gender
  • Feminisms, Feminist Theory and Documentary Practice

Part Two

Case Studies: Female Documentary Directors in Focus

  • Documentary as Artform: Pirjo Honkasalo’s Cinematic Poetics
  • Transnational Feminism in the Cinema of Kim Longinotto
  • Nishtha Jain: An Auto-ethnographic and a Postcolonial Feminist Gaze
  • Marie Mandy: Female Subjectivity and Aesthetics
  • A View from the Margins: The Films of Nancy D Kates
  • Gillian Armstrong: The Line Between Fact and Fiction
  • Conclusion: Rendering Female Reality

Glossary

Film Index

Name Index

Subject Index