The Female Gaze in Documentary Film: An International Perspective

Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
About the Author
Chapter 1: Introduction
	Part I
	Part II
	References
		Filmography
Part I: Women’s Documentary Practice, Theory and Histories
	Chapter 2: Women and Documentary
		Introduction
		Women and Documentary: Historical Highlights
		Female Participation and Access
		Female Subjectivity
		Politics
		The Woman Filmmaker
		References
			Filmography
			Female Documentary Filmmakers to Win Academy Awards for ‘Documentary Feature’ (with Winning Year: 1948–020)
	Chapter 3: The ‘Female Gaze’
		Foregrounding Female Subjectivity
		A Woman’s Look
		Markers of the Female Gaze
		A Women’s Poetics and the Female Gaze5
		Feminisms and Representation
		Resonant Themes
		Conclusion
		References
			Filmography
	Chapter 4: Aesthetics and the Influence of Gender
		Introduction
		A ‘Female Aesthetic’
		A Feminist Aesthetic
		A Feminine Aesthetic
		Female Experience
		A Female Perspective
		Identification
		Circularity and a Lack of Closure
		Emotion and Feeling
		Detail
		Conclusion
		References
			Filmography
	Chapter 5: Feminisms, Feminist Theory and Documentary Practice
		Introduction
		Feminist Documentary
		Feminist Documentary Practices
		Women Documentary Filmmakers as Change Agents
		Feminist Documentary and Film Studies
		Theory and Practice: The Debate About Realism
		Female Authorship
		Conclusion
		References
			Filmography
Part II: Case Studies: Female Documentary Directors in Focus
	Chapter 6: Documentary as Artform: Pirjo Honkasalo’s Cinematic Poetics
		Introduction: Pirjo Honkasalo
		Style, Approach and Poetics1
		Women in Finnish and Transnational Filmmaking Contexts
		Interview with Pirjo Honkasalo
		Conclusion
		References
			Filmography
	Chapter 7: Transnational Feminism in the Cinema of Kim Longinotto
		Introduction: Kim Longinotto
		British and Transnational Contexts
		Feminisms, Transnational Feminism and Longinotto’s Films
		A Female Gaze and Aesthetic
		Interview with Kim Longinotto
		Conclusion: Longinotto and the Female Gaze
		References
			Filmography
	Chapter 8: Nishtha Jain: An Auto-ethnographic and a Postcolonial Feminist Gaze
		Auto-ethnography
		Activism
		Women Documentarians in India
		Postcolonial Feminism and What It Means to Be a Feminist
		Interview with Nishtha Jain
		Conclusion: Jain and the Female Gaze
		References
			Filmography
	Chapter 9: Marie Mandy: Female Subjectivity and Aesthetics
		National and Production Contexts
		Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Film
		The Body in Representation and Image
		A Colonised Gaze
		Interview with Marie Mandy
		Conclusion
			Female Agency and the Possibility of a Women’s Cinematic Language
		References
			Filmography
	Chapter 10: A View from the Margins: The Films of Nancy D Kates
		Marginalised by Sexual Identity
		Queer Voices2
		A Female World View
		Writing and Books
		Documentary and Women in the United States
		Interview with Nancy D Kates
		Conclusion: Kates, Power and the Female Gaze
		References
			Filmography
	Chapter 11: Gillian Armstrong: The Line Between Fact and Fiction
		Introduction
		‘A Gillian Armstrong Film’
		Being Typecast
		A Girl’s Eye View
		Critical Reception
		Docudrama
		Armstrong’s Dramatised Documentaries
		Women and Documentary in Australia
		Interview with Gillian Armstrong
			French: Armstrong
		Conclusion
		References
			Filmography
	Chapter 12: Conclusion: Rendering Female Reality
		References
			Filmography
Glossary
	References
Film Index
Name Index
Subject Index