Documenting Gendered Violence

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. She is also the 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 Mass Media at Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA. Her research has appeared in Journal of Popular Film & Television, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and Popular Music & Society. She also writes as a blogger for PBS's P.O.V. series.

Concentrating on gender and violence as documentary themes, Documenting Gendered Violence surveys current critical and scholarly positions on a vital area of contemporary media and, at the same time, provides timely analysis of an urgent socio-cultural problem. The interdisciplinary breadth of approaches represented by the cumulative authorship and international range of topics collected here make this book unique and valuable to anyone interested in contemporary documentary film and media, the traditions of feminist documentary, feminist media studies, and the legal, historical, therapeutic and aesthetic discourses of witnessing and testifying.

• Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Chapter 1Introduction: The Intersections of Documentary and Gendered ViolenceHeather McIntosh Chapter 2Creating a Sense of Reality in Sex Crimes UnitLisa Cuklanz Chapter 3Calling the Consumer Activist, Consuming the Trafficking Subject: Call + Response and the Terms of LegibilityAnnie Isabel Fukushima and Julietta Hua Chapter 4‘The Nation Wants to Know!’: Documenting Sexual Violence on Indian Primetime Television NewsSwati Bandi Chapter 5When Solidarity Melts into Air: Philippines-Born Women Migrants in AustraliaShirlita Africa Espinosa Chapter 6Global Sex Work, Victim Identities, and CybersexualitiesWendy S. HesfordChapter 7‘This is about Way More than Bullies’: User-Generated Video, Narrative Multiplicity, and LGBTQ Youth IdentityLauren S. BerlinerChapter 8A tráves de mis ojos: Fototestimonios with Children Growing Up in Immigrant and Migrant Communities in Northern CaliforniaNatalia Deeb-SossaChapter 9Staging Gender Violence in the Congo: Reading Lynn Nottage’s Ruined as a Documentary DramaPhyllisa DerozeChapter 10Making The Invisible War VisibleLaura VazquezChapter 11The Committed Documentary and Contemporary Distribution: A Look at Sin by SilenceHeather McIntosh Chapter 12Anatomy of Filmmaking Practice: Documentary and Gendered ViolenceRuth Goldman FilmographyIndex