Week 3 – Useful texts/videos

Articles and Books that inspired our research:

Websites:

‘Fact not Fiction: Women Documentary Directors of the Americas.’

 

The Sari Soldiers, by Julie Bridgham

“Interesting, isn’t it, how women tend to get short shrift in recorded history.  Who knew that the eminent John Grierson, considered by many to be the godfather of documentary, had two sisters, Ruby and Marion, who were documentary directors in their own right?  What of Charlotte Zwerin, long-time collaborator with the Maysles brothers and the other “fathers of verité” like Drew, Leacock and Pennebaker on such landmark documentaries as Salesman and Gimme Shelter?  And who has heard of verité documentaries like Geri Ashur’s Janie’s Janie and Madeline Anderson’s I Am Somebody that came out around that same time?  It makes one wonder: what makes a documentary mainstream and celebrated and who is doing the deciding?”[1]

Pepita Ferrari on May 25, 2010 

(Originally published in POV Magazine, summer, 2010)

Read it: http://artthreat.net/2010/05/women_documentary_filmmakers/

 

 Oshima Nagisa, Ai No Corrida (In the Realm of the Senses, 1976)

“Does truth determine politics or politics truth? It is a question of how the production of truth has always been influenced and standardized by social power relations.”[2]

Hito Steyerl

Documentarism as politics of truth

05/2003

Read it: http://www.republicart.net/disc/representations/steyerl03_en.htm

WOMEN MAKE MOVIES website.

                                                                                   The Heretics, Joan Braderman, 2009.

Check it out: http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c780.shtml

Books:

Women of vision: histories in feminist film and video

Author: Alexandra Juhasz

Publishers: U of Minnesota Press, 2001

Read it:

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QOMn0tRfF-AC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Women+of+Vision,++Alexandra+Juhasz&source=bl&ots=bl2rdw5Bwi&sig=l8Kkzr2b0XcIH7UfhgxkqN2UvK0&hl=en&ei=Kah4TcruNYyt4AaG8LTnBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

New Challenges for Documentary

Editors Alan Rosenthal and John Corner

Publishers Manchester University Press, 2005

Read it http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=z7byAre88gYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=New+challenges+for+documentary&source=bl&ots=KORuljoUxu&sig=f_n5lZbqtNXvhJ0yTblQ_pfWZi4&hl=en&ei=5zCPTa_7KNSAhQew6Om7Dg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false

'WOMEN'S CINEMA AS COUNTERCINEMA'

Author: Claire Johnston. PDF file

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Representing the woman: cinema and psychoanalysis

Author: Elizabeth Cowie.

Publisher: Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1997.

Alice doesn’t: feminism, semiotics, cinema. 

Author: Teresa de Lauretis

Publisher: Macmillan London, 1984

Read it http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OTz_fUNh0awC&printsec=frontcover&dq=alice+doesn't+feminism+semiotics+cinema&source=bl&ots=2sU89hS3A7&sig=eqYY07pCMMGlDPTljwJV_JtpmaI&hl=en&ei=BryoS-CwDJqy0gSjt73rDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CAwQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false

The Feminist Intervention: Film and theory: an anthology / edited.

Author: Robert Stam and Toby Miller

Publisher: Malden, Mass. Blackwell, 2000.

 Ultimately We Are All Outsiders: The Ethics of Documentary Filming

Author: Calvin Pryluck’s

Publisher:

The Postmodernist Turn in Anthropology: Cautions from a Feminist Perspective

Editors: Frances Mascia-Lees, Patricia Sharpe, and Colleen Ballerino Cohen.

Publishers: Signs15.1 (Autumn 1994) 7-33

Theorizing Documentary

Author: Micheal Renov

Publisher: New York Routledge 1993

Experimental ethnography: the work of film in the age of video

Author: Catherine Russell

Publisher Duke University Press, 1999

Read it http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Upf_ohpLcDkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Russell,+Catherine+1999.+%E2%80%98Surrealist+Ethnography%E2%80%99.+In:+Experimental+Ethnography.+The+work+of+film+in+the+age+of+video.+Duke+University+Press&hl=en&ei=xp3CTKqDEdTa4AaW5uW5Aw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

F is for phony: fake documentary and truth's undoing

Authors: Alexandra Juhasz, Jesse Lerner

Publishers:  U of Minnesota Press, 2006

Read it:

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TXaFokBqx4C&dq=Women+of+Vision,++Alexandra+Juhasz&source=gbs_similarbooks_s&cad=1

(An extremely comprehensive resources list on feminsim and documentary can be found at the back of Diane Waldman's and Janet Walker's 'Feminism and Documentary' )


Please attach more links/references for books/texts/websites that you feel would contribute to this list/project

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[1]Fact not Fiction: Women Documentary Directors of the Americas, Pepita Ferrari on May 25, 2010 (Originally published in POV Magazine, summer, 2010): http://artthreat.net/2010/05/women_documentary_filmmakers/

[2] Documentarism as politics of truth,  Hito Steyerl 05/2003 http://www.republicart.net/disc/representations/steyerl03_en.htm