Documenting Gendered Violence Representations, Collaborations, and Movements

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.

Lisa M. Cuklanz is Chair of the Department of Communication at Boston College, USA, and is the co-editor of Violence, Global Media: Feminist Analyses of Gendered Representations (2009) with Sujata Moorti, author of Rape on Prime Time: Television, Masculinity, and Sexual Violence ( 2000), and Rape on Trial: How the Mass Media Construct Legal Reform and Social Change (1996).

Heather McIntosh is Assistant Professor of Communication Arts at Notre Dame of Maryland University in Baltimore. Her research focuses on documentary, gender, and media distribution. She also writes as a blogger for PBS's P.O.V. series.

Chapter 1
Introduction: The Intersections of Gender Violence and Documentary
Heather McIntosh

Chapter 2
Creating a Sense of Reality in Sex Crimes Unit
Lisa Cuklanz

Chapter 3
Making The Invisible War Visible
By Laura Vazquez

Chapter 4
Gender Violence and the Limits of Representation in Broomfield Documentaries about Aileen Wuornos
Jeffrey P. Chown

Chapter 5
Calling the Consumer Activist, Consuming the Trafficking Subject: Call + Response and the Terms of Legibility
Julietta Hua and Annie Fukushima

Chapter 6
The Violent Image: Televisual Logics, Neoliberal Subjects and Performative Documentary Representations of Sexual Violence
Swati Bandi

Chapter 7
Reprint Excerpt from Global Sex Work, Victim Identities, and Cybersexualities
Wendy S. Hesford

Chapter 8
When Solidarity Melts into Air: Philippines-Born Women Migrants in Australia
Shirlita Africa Espinosa

Chapter 9
Staging Gender Violence in the Congo: Reading Lynn Nottage’s Ruined as a Documentary Drama
Phyllisa Deroze


Chapter 10
FOTOTESTIMONIOS: Capturing Histories of Inequality and Liberation Using Photovoice in Mexican Immigrant and Migrant Communities in Northern California
Natalia Deeb-Sossa

Chapter 11
“This is about Way More than Bullies:” User-Generated Video, Narrative Multiplicity, and LGBTQ Youth Identity
Lauren S. Berliner

Chapter 12
Women’s Advocacy Documentaries and Contemporary Distribution: A Look at Sin by Silence
Heather McIntosh

Chapter 13
Behind the Camera: Documentary Makers and Documenting Gendered Violence
Ruth Goldman

Filmography/Projects

Bibliography

Index