- Review Documentary films within a Transnational Framework.
- Discuss the power of representation and how it used and abused by documentarians.
- Applying TF theories to older documentaries, the films themselves do not need to take a Transnational Feminist stance, I however, will and will suggest how the film fails or succeeds in providing the audience with a TF understanding of these women’s lives.
- I will also point out if and when it seems as though the filmmaker is displaying the women in the film as so ‘alien’ that we can only observe their foreign lives but not feel at all connected to them.
- Discuss how the filmmakers approached the film, their editing choices, decisions on music, etc.
- Finally I would like to address the ways in which the medium of film can be used to further the causes of Transnational Feminists.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
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I think your objectives are spot on in terms of approaching this TNF project: both film AND the written word are alike in that their veracity is rarely questioned: the common feeling is that if something has been committed to celluloid (or videotape, or binary 1s and 0s if we're talking digital) and portrays something from the 'real world' then it is 'authentic', particularly if the word Documentary is somewhere on the cover blurb!
Film has amazingly potential to provide multiple layers of information about marginalized groups, but a filtering process goes on: starting from the cameraman to the director to the editing room floor, every stage of the process removes the viewer by degrees from whatever 'authentic' narrative was present when the cameras where rolling, and bias creeps in.
This is a really great topic to explore, and I look forward to the rest of your blogs!
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