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.
An important and engaging collection. The contributions examine not only the representation of violence in documentary films, but also the way documentary films might intervene into these representations, exploring an under-theorized area of both violence and documentary scholarship.