Women and Global Documentary

Practices and Perspectives in the 21st Century

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Edited by Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi and Shilyh Warren

Type: Studies
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Keywords: documentary, women, global
Publishing date: 2025 (March 20, 2025)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Collection: World Cinema
Language: English

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Paperback • 312 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

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978-1-350-42289-6

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Book Presentation:
In what innovative ways are women documentary filmmakers seeking to prioritize and promote political awareness, alternative modes of allyship, and advocacy for those most marginalized by patriarchy and global capitalism?

Women and Global Documentary answers the urgent need to re-evaluate the significance of women's documentary practices, their contributions to feminist world-building, and to the state of documentary studies as a whole.
Bringing together a range of diverse practitioners and authors, the volume analyzes alternative and emergent networks of documentary production and collaboration within a global context. The chapters investigate filmmaking practices from regions such as East Africa, Latin America, South Asia, East Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa. They also examine decolonial practices in the Global North based on Indigenous filmmaking and feminist documentary institutions such as Women Make Movies. In doing so, they assess the global, institutional, political, and artistic factors that have shaped women's documentary practices in the 21st century, and their implications for scholarly debates regarding women's authorship, political subjectivity, and documentary representation.

About the authors:
Shilyh Warren is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, USA. She is the author of Subject to Reality (2019) and has published widely on documentary cinema and feminist theory.Lúcia Nagib is Professor of Film and Director of the Centre for Film Aesthetics and Cultures (CFAC) at the University of Reading. Her research has focused, among other subjects, on polycentric approaches to world cinema, new waves and new cinemas, cinematic realism and intermediality. She is the author of World Cinema and the Ethics of Realism (Continuum, 2011), Brazil on Screen: Cinema Novo, New Cinema, Utopia (I.B. Tauris, 2007), The Brazilian Film Revival: Interviews with 90 Filmmakers of the 90s (Editora 34, 2002), Born of the Ashes: The Auteur and the Individual in Oshima's Films (Edusp, 1995), Around the Japanese Nouvelle Vague (Editora da Unicamp, 1993) and Werner Herzog: Film as Reality (EstaçãoLiberdade, 1991). She is the editor of Impure Cinema: Intermedial and Intercultural Approaches to Film (with Anne Jerslev, 2013), Theorizing World Cinema (with Chris Perriam and Rajinder Dudrah, I.B. Tauris, 2011), Realism and the Audiovisual Media (with Cecília Mello, Palgrave, 2009), The New Brazilian Cinema (I.B. Tauris, 2003), Master Mizoguchi (Navegar, 1990) and Ozu (Marco Zero, 1990).Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Old Dominion University, USA. She has published widely on women and Iranian cinema.Julian Ross is a University Lecturer at the Centre for the Arts in Society.

Press Reviews:
"Women and Global Documentary is more than "works by, about, and for women." Through portraits of iterative collaboration, deep listening, unglamorous labour, transnational solidarity, and struggle against settler-colonial, patriarchal, and environmental violence, this volume reframes feminist documentary as a process-based emergent form and rehearsal-ground for a more generous, hospitable world." ―Pooja Rangan, Professor of English in Film and Media Studies, Amherst College, USA

"An exciting and innovative study of feminist world building through global documentary cinema by women." ―Parvati Nair, Professor of Hispanic, Cultural and Migration Studies, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

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