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This book, like its twin volume Female Authorship and Documentary Strategies, centres on pressing issues in relation to female authorship in contemporary documentary practices. Addressing the politics of representation and authorship both behind and in front of the camera, a range of international scholars now expand the theoretical and practical framework informing the current scholarship on documentary cinema, which has so far neglected questions of gender.
Female Authorship and the Documentary Image engages with the relationship between female documentary filmmakers and the documentary image. With a thematic focus on the documentary image directly, within the more traditional arenas of theory and practice and especially within the context of gaze and author theory, the book also considers more philosophical questions of aesthetics, home and identity within the contexts of female subjectivity, globalisation and trauma. The book also includes a dialogue on two key photographers, Hannah Wilke and Jo Spence, as well as an interview with Taiwanese documentary filmmakers Singing Chen and Wuna Wu.
Boel Ulfsdotter is Reader in Film and Media Studies at Gothenburg University, Sweden. Ulfsdotter has recently published articles in International Journal of Fashion Studies (2021) and Journal of Film, Fashion & Consumption (2022). Additionally, she has published the twin volumes Female Authorship and the Documentary Image: Theory, Practice and Aesthetics, and Female Agency and Documentary Strategies: Subjectivities, Identity, and Activism (2018) with Edinburgh University Press. Ulfsdotter is a formally trained dressmaker, and freelance fashion and visual arts critic.
Anna Backman Rogers is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Gothenberg, Sweden.
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