
Published online:
20 September 2018
Published in print:
01 February 2018
Online ISBN:
9781474444682
Print ISBN:
9781474419444
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Introduction Introduction
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Foregrounding Female Subjectivity Foregrounding Female Subjectivity
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Would a Man Make a Film like That? Would a Man Make a Film like That?
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Female Aesthetics Female Aesthetics
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Feminism and Representation Feminism and Representation
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Resonant Themes Resonant Themes
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An Advantage for Documentary Directors in Being Female An Advantage for Documentary Directors in Being Female
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Acknowledgements Acknowledgements
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Notes Notes
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Filmography Filmography
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Chapter
1. Women in the Director’s Chair: The ‘Female Gaze’ in Documentary Film
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9–21
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Published:February 2018
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French, Lisa, 'Women in the Director’s Chair: The ‘Female Gaze’ in Documentary Film', in Boel Ulfsdotter, and Anna Backman Rogers (eds), Female Authorship and the Documentary Image: Theory, Practice and Aesthetics (Edinburgh , 2018; online edn, Edinburgh Scholarship Online, 20 Sept. 2018), https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474419444.003.0002, accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
This essay examines the concept of a ‘female gaze’ in documentary film with a specific consideration of the work, and viewpoints, of women directors. The question asked is whether a film as a creative artefact, as well as if the working opportunities within the film industry, are affected by the fact that the person making the film is biologically female. French concludes that it is indeed so, and that “part of this recognition is due to visible female aesthetic approaches, world, views, and treatments of subjects, themes, and the overall privileging of female subjectivity.”
Keywords:
Female gaze, women directors, female aesthetics, working opportunities, female subjectivity
Subject
Film
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