Documenting Gendered Violence: Representations, Collaborations, and Movements

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Documenting Gendered Violence explores the intersections of documentary and gendered violence. Several contributors investigate representations through grounded textual analyses of key films and videos, including Sex Crimes Unit (2011) and The Invisible War (2012),and other documentary texts including Youtube, photographs, and theater. Other chapters use analysis and interviews to explore how gender violence issues impact production and how these documentaries become part of collaborations and awareness movements. Cover Half-title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors 1. Introduction: The Intersections of Documentary and Gendered Violence Defining documentary The committed documentary and social change Challenging ideologies through form in feminist documentary Filmmaker–participant relationships Trauma theory and representations of gender violence The director as subject Constructing audiences and making impacts Chapter previews Notes Bibliography 2. Creating a Sense of Reality in Sex Crimes Unit Introduction Theoretical background The case of Sex Crimes Unit and survivors of sexual assault Cinema verité Debunking rape myths Authorial voice Limitations Conclusion Notes Bibliography 3. Calling the Consumer Activist, Consuming the Trafficking Subject: Call + Response and the Terms of Legibility Human rights mediascapes National and cultural narratives of race and citizenship Analogizing slavery: Recentering the nation Thinking beyond consumer activism Conclusion Notes Bibliography 4. “The Nation Wants to Know!”: Documenting Sexual Violence on Indian Prime-Time Television News “Mangalore Horror” Aestheticizing television news “The Delhi Rape Case” Rape cultures and making rape visible Conclusion Notes Bibliography 5. When Solidarity Melts into Air: Philippines-Born Women Migrants in Australia A “southern” migration Who is the Filipino in Australia? I, the “mail order bride”: Documenting feminized migration Race for distinction: Because not all “brides” are created equal The politics of “achievement”: Surfacing the hidden trauma Notes Bibliography 6. Global Sex Work, Victim Identities, and Cybersexualities Feminist anti-trafficking campaigns Cybersexualities and cosmopolitan attachments Notes Bibliography 7. “This Is about Way More than Bullies”: User-Generated Video, Narrative Multiplicity, and LGBTQ Youth Identity From pedagogical to performative videos Conclusion Notes Bibliography 8. A tráves de mis ojos: Fototestimonios with Children Growing Up in Immigrant and Migrant Communities in Northern California Introduction Method review Context: Migrant and immigrant communities in the Sacramento Valley Results Discussion Notes Bibliography 9. Staging Gender Violence in the Congo: Reading Lynn Nottage’s Ruined as a Documentary Drama Documentary drama The reality of gender violence in the Congo Documenting the Congo’s complexity on stage Ending with a call to action Notes Bibliography 10. Making The Invisible War Visible Introduction Documentary campaign A vehicle for engagement Winning hearts and minds: The argument of the invisible war The context: The military’s troubled history Testimonies and bodies of evidence Who is to blame? And where are the men? Representing survival From victim to survivor Conclusion Notes Bibliography 11. The Committed Documentary and Contemporary Distribution: A Look at Sin by Silence Telling the stories Getting the message out Engaging audiences Making impacts Concluding thoughts Notes Bibliography 12. Anatomy of Filmmaking Practice: Documentary and Gendered Violence Setting the scene The challenges of funding Building the frame Framing the stories Final thoughts on the practice of making documentaries about gendered violence Notes Bibliography Select Filmography and Distributors List Index