Gaze Regimes - Film and feminisms in Africa (Paperback)J Mistry, A Schuhmann (OUT OF PRINT NEW)

Gaze Regimes - Film and feminisms in Africa (Paperback)Jyoti Mistry, Antje Schuhmann(OUT OF PRINT NEW)

Gaze Regimes is a bricolage of essays and interviewsshowcasing the experiences of women working in film, either directly aspractitioners or in other areas as curators, festival programme directors orfundraisers. It does not shy away from questioning the relations of power inthe practice of filmmaking and the power invested in the gaze itself. Who islooking and who is being looked at, who is telling women's stories in Africaand what governs the mechanics of making those films on the continent? The interviewswith film practitioners such as Tsitsi Dangarembga, Taghreed Elsanhouri, JihanEl-Tahri, Anita Khanna, Isabel Noronhe, Arya Lalloo and Shannon Walshdemonstrate the contradictory points of departure of women in film - from theirunderstanding of feminisms in relation to lived-experiences and the realpolitikof women working as cultural practitioners. The disciplines of gender studies,postcolonial theory, and film theory provide the framework for the book'sessays. Jyoti Mistry, Antje Schuhmann, Nobunye Levin, Dorothee Wenner andChristina von Braun are some of the contributors who provide valuable context,analysis and insight into, among other things, the politics of representation,the role of film festivals and the collective and individual experiences oftrauma and marginality which contribute to the layered and complex filmicresponses of Africa's film practitioners.