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, US, 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.