Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword: Goethe-Institut sub-Saharan Africa
- Introduction: By way of context and content
- 1 African Women in Cinema: An overview
- 2 ‘I am a feminist only in secret’
- 3 Staged Authenticity: Femininity in photography and film
- 4 ‘Power is in your own hands’: Why Jihan El-Tahri does not like movements
- 5 Aftermath – A focus on collective trauma
- 6 Shooting Violence and Trauma: Traversing visual and social topographies in Zanele Muholi's work
- 7 Puk Nini – A Filmic Instruction in Seduction: Exploring class and sexuality in gender relations
- 8 I am Saartjie Baartman
- 9 Filmmaking at the Margins of a Community: On co-producing Elelwani
- 10 On Collective Practice and Collected Reflections
- 11 ‘Cinema of resistance’
- 12 Dark and Personal
- 13 ‘Change? This might mean to shove a few men out’
- 14 Barakat! means Enough!
- 15 ‘Women, use the gaze to change reality’
- 16 Post-colonial Film Collaboration and Festival Politics
- 17 Tsitsi Dangarembga: A manifesto
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- Filmography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 April 2018
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword: Goethe-Institut sub-Saharan Africa
- Introduction: By way of context and content
- 1 African Women in Cinema: An overview
- 2 ‘I am a feminist only in secret’
- 3 Staged Authenticity: Femininity in photography and film
- 4 ‘Power is in your own hands’: Why Jihan El-Tahri does not like movements
- 5 Aftermath – A focus on collective trauma
- 6 Shooting Violence and Trauma: Traversing visual and social topographies in Zanele Muholi's work
- 7 Puk Nini – A Filmic Instruction in Seduction: Exploring class and sexuality in gender relations
- 8 I am Saartjie Baartman
- 9 Filmmaking at the Margins of a Community: On co-producing Elelwani
- 10 On Collective Practice and Collected Reflections
- 11 ‘Cinema of resistance’
- 12 Dark and Personal
- 13 ‘Change? This might mean to shove a few men out’
- 14 Barakat! means Enough!
- 15 ‘Women, use the gaze to change reality’
- 16 Post-colonial Film Collaboration and Festival Politics
- 17 Tsitsi Dangarembga: A manifesto
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- Filmography
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Gaze RegimesFilm and feminisms in Africa, pp. iii - ivPublisher: Wits University PressPrint publication year: 2015