Documenting Gendered Violence

Concentrating on gender and violence as documentary themes, Documenting Gendered Violence surveys current critical and scholarly positions on a vital area of contemporary media and, at the same time, provides timely analysis of an urgent socio-cultural problem. The interdisciplinary breadth of approaches represented by the cumulative authorship and international range of topics collected here make this book unique and valuable to anyone interested in contemporary documentary film and media, the traditions of feminist documentary, feminist media studies, and the legal, historical, therapeutic and aesthetic discourses of witnessing and testifying. * Jonathan Kahana, Associate Professor of Film & Digital Media and Director of the Center for Documentary Arts & Research, University of California Santa Cruz, USA *
Documenting Gendered Violence is a major contribution to both documentary studies and feminist studies of gender and violence. In bringing together these two areas, this timely – and politically urgent – collection of essays focuses much needed scholarly attention on global documentary productions dealing with gendered violence. Exploring a rich and varied number of documentary texts from around the world, and employing a range of critical approaches, Documenting Gendered Violence raises crucial questions about the possibilities of documentary form and practice. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in the socially committed documentary and a stake in the struggle against gender-based violence. * Tanya Horeck, Reader in Film, Media and Culture, Anglia Ruskin University, UK, and author of Public Rape: Representing Violation in Fiction and Film *
An important and engaging collection. The contributions examine not only the representation of violence in documentary films, but also the way documentary films might intervene into these representations, exploring an under-theorized area of both violence and documentary scholarship. * Hilary Neroni, Associate Professor of Film and Television Studies, The University of Vermont, USA *