...Bernardita Llanos M. This essay reflects on the significance of documentary filmmaking in the context of Latin American documentaries, in general, and Chilean films, in particular. It also reflects on how Latinas’ diasporic memories of place affect identity and how we think of the past through...

...Shilyh Warren This essay explores forms of feminist screen media that produce political desires about sexual liberation. I focus on key works, especially from the 1970s, that visualize women’s pleasure in conversation with the language of documentary, that is, on projects committed to matters...

...,” alternating between different scenes and iterations across Europe and the US, from the 1960s to the 2010s. Additional works discussed include EXPORT’s 1980s television documentary on avant-garde film, The Armed Eye , and Varda’s final two documentaries, Faces Places (2017) and Varda by Agnès (2019). © 2022...

...Zhang Zhen; Jiang Jiehong; Ellen Y. Chang This conversation, originally conducted in Chinese, explores the role of films, movie theaters, screens, streaming platforms, and documentary filmmaking in China during the initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Zhang Zhen and Jiang Jiehong—professors...

... the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints . 2020 Regents of the University of California climate change documentary Esther Figueroa Jamaica nontheatrical “The first step towards reimagining a world gone terribly wrong...

...Isra Ali First-generation US filmmakers rooted in the women's liberation movement embraced documentary realism as a form that stood in contrast to the artificiality of studio feature filmmaking: “The ‘real’ in the Feminist Film Movement thus marks both an aesthetic experiment and a political...

... and documentary practitioners, is thoroughly mired in the cultural politics of objectification. I focus on the trope of voice-over commentary, which has been favored among feminist filmmakers working to subvert the representational conventions of narrative cinema and ethnographic documentary. I argue...

...Tanya Goldman This short essay provides an overview of the career of Lee Dick, a female nonfiction film director and producer in the late 1930s and '40s. With a body of work that traverses documentary, industrial, and amateur production, Dick challenges perceived divisions between often overlapping...