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Francophone African Women Documentary Filmmakers
Francophone African Women Documentary Filmmakers is
groundbreaking edited collection which explores the contributions
of Francophone African women to the field of documentary
filmmaking. Rich in its scope and critical vision it constitutes a
timely contribution to cutting-edge scholarly debates on African
cinemas.
Featuring 10 chapters from prominent film scholars, it explores
the distinctive documentary work and contributions of Francophone
African women filmmakers since the 1960s. It focuses documentaries
by North African and Sub-Saharan women filmmakers, including the
pioneering work of Safi Faye in Kaddu Beykat , Rama Thiaw's
The Revolution Will Not be Televised , Katy Lena Ndiaye's
Le Cercle des noyes and En attendant les hommes ,
Dalila Ennadre's Fama: Heroism Without Glory and Leila
Kitani's Nos lieux interdits.
Shunned from costly fictional- 35mm-filmmaking, Francophone
African Women Documentary Filmmakers examines how these women
engaged and experimented with documentary filmmaking in personal,
evocative ways that countered the officially sanctioned,
nationalist practice of show and teach/promote.
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The Value Gap
How female directors, producers, and writers navigate
the challenges and barriers facing female-driven projects at each
stage of filmmaking in contemporary Hollywood.
Conversations about gender equity in the workplace accelerated in
the 2010s, with debates inside Hollywood specifically pointing to
broader systemic problems of employment disparities and
exploitative labor practices. Compounded by the devastating #MeToo
revelations, these problems led to a wide-scale call for change.
The Value Gap traces female-driven filmmaking across
development, financing, production, film festivals, marketing, and
distribution, examining the realities facing women working in the
industry during this transformative moment. Drawing from five years
of extensive interviews with female producers, writers, and
directors at different stages of their careers, Courtney Brannon
Donoghue examines how Hollywood business cultures \"value\"
female-driven projects as risky or not bankable. Industry claims
that \"movies targeting female audiences don't make money\" or \"women
can't direct big-budget blockbusters\" have long circulated to
rationalize systemic gender inequities and have served to normalize
studios prioritizing the white male-driven status quo. Through a
critical media industry studies lens, The Value Gap
challenges this pervasive logic with firsthand accounts of women
actively navigating the male-dominated and conglomerate-owned
industrial landscape.
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Conversations in color : exploring North American musical theatre
\"An edited book of interviews that provides an original exploration into the thoughts of a handful of the greatest artists working in musical theatre today, told exclusively by artists of color\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Hear Me with Your Eyes
Hear Me with Your Eyes examines the intrusion of the voice
into the cinematographic gaze and the intersections (and ruptures)
of the sound-image in Argentine women filmmakers from a feminist
perspective. In different ways, Maria Luisa Bemberg, Lita Stantic,
Lucrecia Martel, Albertina Carri, Maria Victoria Menis, Lucia
Puenzo, Sabrina Farji, Paula de Luque, Anahi Berneri, Sandra
Gugliotta, and Gabriela David explore the visual realm through the
continuities, intrusions, irrelevancies, harmonies, and
desynchronizations of the voice. Or, instead, they explore
different voices and their modulations, including whispers,
screams, singing, echoes, breathing, resonance, sighs, and the
transcendent voice, the narrative voice, the silenced voice, the
articulated and unarticulated voice, and that which is none of the
above. These voices suggest another relationship with the
audiovisual realm, one that seems to include a closeness that
erases, if only intermittently, the unalterable relationship
between subject and object that characterizes the patriarchal
visual regime.
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Women Filmmakers and the Visual Politics of Transnational China in the #MeToo Era
Manoeuvring around mainland China's censors and pushing back against threats of lawsuits, online harassment, and physical violence, #MeToo activists shed a particularly harsh light on the treatment of women in the cinema and entertainment industries. Focusing on films from the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora, this book considers how female directors shape Chinese visual politics through the depiction of the look, the stare, the leer, the glare, the glimpse, the glance, the queer and the oppositional gaze in fiction and documentary filmmaking. In the years leading up to and following in the wake of #MeToo, these cosmopolitan women filmmakers offer innovative angles on body image, reproduction, romance, family relations, gender identity, generational differences, female sexuality, sexual violence, sex work, labor migration, career options, minority experiences, media access, feminist activism and political rights within the rapidly changing Chinese cultural orbit.
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Insiders, Outsiders, and the Struggle for Consecration in Cultural Fields: A Core-Periphery Perspective
Building on recent research emphasizing how legitimacy depends on consensus among audiences about candidates' characteristics and activities, we examine the relationship between cultural producers' (candidates) position in the social structure and the consecration of their creative work by relevant audiences. We argue that the outcome of this process of evaluation in any cultural field, whether in art or science, is a function of (1) candidates' embeddedness within the field, and (2) the type of audience—that is, peers versus critics—evaluating candidates' work. Specifically, we hypothesize that peers are more likely to favor candidates who are highly embedded in the field, whereas critics will not show such favoritism. We find support for these hypotheses in the context of the Hollywood motion picture industry.
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