Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-viii

Notes on the Contributor

pp ix-xii

Foreword

pp xiii-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-6

PART ONE - NEW MEDIA AND ACTIVISM

pp 7-8

1 - The Pencil of Identity: Instagram as Inadvertent (Female) Autobiography

pp 9-22

2 - Archetype and Authenticity: Reflections on Amalia Ulman’s Excellences & Perfections

pp 23-37

3 - Blogging the Female Self: Authorship, Self-performance and Identity Politics in Fashion Blogs

pp 38-54

PART TWO - RELATIONALITY, SELFHOOD AND SUBJECTIVITIES

pp 55-56

4 - ‘Scriptrix Narrans’: Digital Documentary Storytelling’s Radical Potential

pp 57-69

5 - Hybrid Practices and Voice Making in Contemporary Female Documentary Film

pp 70-83

6 - Record Keeping: Family Memories on Film – Rea Tajiri’s History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashig and Wisdom Gone Wild

pp 84-99

7 - ‘Not Because my Heart is Gone; Simply the Other Side’: Francesca Woodman’s Relational and Ephemeral Subjectivity at the Limit of the Image

pp 100-113

8 - Other Women: Thinking Class and Gender in Contemporary Brazilian Documentary Film

pp 114-124

Interview: ‘Visualising Our Voices’ – Hong Kong Scholar and Film Director Vivian Wenli Lin, in conversation with Boel Ulfsdotter

pp 125-134

PART THREE - IDENTITY POLITICS OF DOCUMENTARY

pp 135-136

9 - From Visceral Style to Discourse of Resistance: Reading Alka Sadat’s Afghan Documentaries on Violence Against Women

pp 137-155

10 - Documenting Georgia in Transition: The Films of Salomé Jashi and Nino Kirtadze

pp 156-169

11 - Profession: Documentarist: Underground Documentary Making in Iran

pp 170-183

12 - ‘Reflecting through Images’: The Documentaries of Mercedes Álvarez

pp 184-193

Select Bibliography

pp 194-200

Index

pp 201-207