Warren, Shilyh J.,  1974- <br/><br/>
Subject to reality :  women and documentary film / 
Shilyh Warren. 
 - x, 179 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm. 
 - Women and film history international .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-167) and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: two real moments -- Filming among others: Frances Flaherty and Osa Johnson -- Anthropological visions inside and out: Zora Neale Hurston and Margaret Mead -- Strangely familiar: autoethnography and whiteness in personal documentaries -- Native ethnographers and feminist solidarity -- Conclusion: when the walls come down. 
<br/><br/> Revolutionary thinking around gender and race merged with new film technologies to usher in a wave of women's documentaries in the 1970s. Driven by the various promises of second-wave feminism, activist filmmakers believed authentic stories about women would bring more people into an imminent revolution. Yet their films soon faded into obscurity.[https://www.press.uillinois.edu/]  Shilyh Warren reopens this understudied period and links it to a neglected era of women's filmmaking that took place from 1920 to 1940, another key period of thinking around documentary, race, and gender. Drawing women’s cultural expression during these two explosive times into conversation, Warren reconsiders key debates about subjectivity, feminism, realism, and documentary and their lasting epistemological and material consequences for film and feminist studies. She also excavates the lost ethnographic history of women's documentary filmmaking in the earlier era and explores the political and aesthetic legacy of these films in more explicitly feminist periods like the Seventies.<br/><br/>Filled with challenging insights and new close readings, Subject to Reality sheds light on a profound and unexamined history of feminist documentaries while revealing their influence on the filmmakers of today.[https://www.press.uillinois.edu/] 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780252042539 9780252084348 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2018049780 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Documentary films--History--United States--20th century.<br/>Women motion picture producers and directors--United States.<br/>Feminism and motion pictures.<br/>Motion pictures and women.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN1995.9.D6  / W37 2019 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>070.1/8