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Women Filmmakers of the African & Asian Diaspora

Decolonizing the Gaze, Locating Subjectivity
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An examination of the works of six contemporary black and asian women filmmakers. It also includes a detailed introduction and a chapter entitled "Other Voices", documenting the work of other black and asian filmmakers. The book analyzes the key films of Zeinabu Irene Davis, "one of a growing number of independent black women filmmakers who are actively constructing an 'oppositional gaze'"; British filmmaker Ngozi Onwurah and Julie Dash, two filmmakers working with time and space; Pratibha Parmar, a Kenyan/Indian-born British black filmmaker concerned with issues of representation, identity, cultural displacement, lesbianism and racial identity; Trinh T. Minh-ha, a Vietnamese-born artist who revolutionized documentary filmmaking by displacing the "voyeuristic gaze of the ethnographic documentary filmmaker"; and Mira Nair, a black Indian woman who concentrates on interracial identity.
Gwendolyn Audrey Foster is Willa Cather Endowed Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and is the author of fourteen books. Performing Whiteness: Postmodern Re/Constructions in the Cinema, was named an outstanding title in the humanities for 2004 by Choice. Foster's most recent book is Disruptive Feminisms: Raced, Classed, and Gendered Bodies in Film.?
"This book sheds a necessary light on women film-makers and videographers whose existence and works have been overlooked in previous book-length studies of women filmmakers."-Mark A. Reid, author of Post--Negritude Visual and Literacy Culture
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