06. Ethnographic Film in the Decolonizing Third World (1970s-80s)
Media praxis within ethnographic film restructures many of anthropology‘s founding positions. The naming of unequal relations of power, difference, and […]
07. Feminist Film: The UK and Americas (1970s-80s)
07. Feminist Film: The UK and Americas (1970s-80s)
When second-wave feminists came to film in the 1970s as part of their struggle against patriarchy, a tension developed within […]
08. Transatlantic Black Popular Culture: UK and US (1980s-90s)
In direct dialogue with the post-structuralist, deconstructive work preceding it, black independent filmmaking and criticism added an anti-essentialist politics of […]
Martineau, B.H. “Talking about,” re subjet/object
I don’t know if attention to film codes is sufficient to discover whether a given film approaches its protaganists and […]
Martineau, BH “Talking about our lives and experiences”
The relationship of commitment between filmmaker and film subject, and between these two and the audience, provides a little-discussed dimension […]
Mercer, K.”De Margin and De Center” re diaspora perspective
“Aware that ‘there is a Third World in every First World and vice versa’ (Trinh T. Minh-ha), the diaspora perspective […]
Mulvey, Laura. ” Visual Pleasure,” re bearer of meaning
Woman then stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male others, bound by a symbolic order on which […]
Mulvey, Laura. “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.”
Psychoanalytic theory is thus appropriated here as a political weapon, demonstrating the way the unconscious of patriarchal socity has structured […]
Mulvey, Laura. “Visual Pleasure,” conclusion
The first blow against the monolithic accumulation of traditional film conveftions (already undertaken by radical filmmakers) is to free the […]
Parmar, Pratibha. “That Moment of Emergence”
What we have been seeing in recent years is the development of a new politics of difference which states that […]