Women Filmmakers of the African and Asian Diaspora(English, Paperback, Southern Illinois University Press)

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Women Filmmakers of the African and Asian Diaspora(English, Paperback, Southern Illinois University Press) is written by Southern Illinois University Press and published by Southern Illinois University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0809321203 (ISBN 10) and 9780809321209 (ISBN 13).

An examination of the works of six contemporary black and asian women filmmakers. It also includes a detailed introduction and a chapter entitled ""Other Voices"", documenting the work of other black and asian filmmakers. The book analyzes the key films of Zeinabu Irene Davis, ""one of a growing number of independent black women filmmakers who are actively constructing an 'oppositional gaze'""; British filmmaker Ngozi Onwurah and Julie Dash, two filmmakers working with time and space; Pratibha Parmar, a Kenyan/Indian-born British black filmmaker concerned with issues of representation, identity, cultural displacement, lesbianism and racial identity; Trinh T. Minh-ha, a Vietnamese-born artist who revolutionized documentary filmmaking by displacing the ""voyeuristic gaze of the ethnographic documentary filmmaker""; and Mira Nair, a black Indian woman who concentrates on interracial identity.