Beti Ellerson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4117369 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beti Ellerson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beti |
| FAMILY NAME | Ellerson |
| SIGNATURE | ELLERSON B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Onscreen Narratives, Offscreen Lives
Onscreen Narratives, Offscreen Lives: African Women Inscribing the Self Beti Ellerson (bio) The journeys of onscreen characters, while most do not reflect the offscreen trajectories of the real-life women, provide glimpses that parallel the paths that these women have voyaged in their own lives—perhaps influenced by their characters, or more brutally, because of them. Their travels, imaginary and real, have some relationship to their roles as act…
Remembering Djibril Diop Mambéty on the 20th Anniversary of His Death
Remembering Djibril Diop Mambéty on the 20th Anniversary of His Death Beti Ellerson1 (bio) I met Djibril Diop Mambéty during his visit to the United States in April 1997 where he was invited to the annual African Literature Association Conference hosted by Michigan State University; African cinema was the focus of the conference. I had my video camera and asked Mambéty if I could interview him. I was again struck by his approachable manner and la…
African Women of the Screen as Cultural Producers
African women as cultural producers in the realm of the moving image, screen culture, audiovisual media—what are their experiences? These women who work actively in the behind-the-scenes roles; in front of the screen as journalist, critic, cultural reader; in the corridors as organizer, activist, advocate, promoter in the vast cinematic enterprise, many wearing multiple hats as filmmaker, actor, presenter, producer, scholar. Whether working on th…
Traveling Gazes
The exilic and diasporic filmmaking experiences of African women of the screen have been evident from the start of African cinematic practices. Women have traveled and relocated outside of their homeland to study, edit, shoot, work, live, and network. Informed by Hamid Naficy's formulation of "accented cinema," this article traces these peripatetic migrations framed within selected topics that are representative of the histories, trends, and tend…
African Women Documentarists
African Women and the Documentary: Storytelling, Visualizing History, from the Personal to the Political1 Beti Ellerson (bio) The practice of storytelling, of relating actuality, the real, of recounting history, the personal, the social, the political, are all features of the screen culture in which African women have evolved in myriad ways as stakeholders in the cultural production of their society and world. Telling stories through documentary …
African Women and the Documentary
African Women and the Documentary: Storytelling, Visualizing History, from the Personal to the Political1 Beti Ellerson (bio) The practice of storytelling, of relating actuality, the real, of recounting history, the personal, the social, the political, are all features of the screen culture in which African women have evolved in myriad ways as stakeholders in the cultural production of their society and world. Telling stories through documentary …
Teaching African Women in Cinema, Part Two
Teaching African Women in Cinema:Part Two Beti Ellerson (bio) The second part of this essay offers a primer on African women in cinema studies, which is based on actual courses, seminars, and lectures and draws directly from articles posted on the African Women in Cinema Blog1 since its inception in 2009. A longer version of this article was published in nine parts on the blog. Toward an African Women Cinema Studies A developing corpus of literat…
Towards an African women in cinema studies
The focus of this article is the conceptualization of an approach to the study of African women in cinema, proposing tenets for constructing a historiography, developing a theoretical framework and formulating a feminist critic of African women’s cinematic practices, as well as gendered representations as a whole. The article considers the extent that African transnational expression has influenced its makers from the very beginning of African ci…
The Female Body as Symbol of Change and Dichotomy
African Women of the Screen as Cultural Producers
African women as cultural producers in the realm of the moving image, screen culture, audiovisual media—what are their experiences? These women who work actively in the behind-the-scenes roles; in front of the screen as journalist, critic, cultural reader; in the corridors as organizer, activist, advocate, promoter in the vast cinematic enterprise, many wearing multiple hats as filmmaker, actor, presenter, producer, scholar. Whether working on th…
African Women Documentarists
African Women and the Documentary: Storytelling, Visualizing History, from the Personal to the Political1 Beti Ellerson (bio) The practice of storytelling, of relating actuality, the real, of recounting history, the personal, the social, the political, are all features of the screen culture in which African women have evolved in myriad ways as stakeholders in the cultural production of their society and world. Telling stories through documentary …
Teaching African Women in Cinema, Part Two
Teaching African Women in Cinema:Part Two Beti Ellerson (bio) The second part of this essay offers a primer on African women in cinema studies, which is based on actual courses, seminars, and lectures and draws directly from articles posted on the African Women in Cinema Blog1 since its inception in 2009. A longer version of this article was published in nine parts on the blog. Toward an African Women Cinema Studies A developing corpus of literat…
The Female Body as Symbol of Change and Dichotomy
Towards an African women in cinema studies
The focus of this article is the conceptualization of an approach to the study of African women in cinema, proposing tenets for constructing a historiography, developing a theoretical framework and formulating a feminist critic of African women’s cinematic practices, as well as gendered representations as a whole. The article considers the extent that African transnational expression has influenced its makers from the very beginning of African ci…
African Women Documentarists
African Women and the Documentary: Storytelling, Visualizing History, from the Personal to the Political1 Beti Ellerson (bio) The practice of storytelling, of relating actuality, the real, of recounting history, the personal, the social, the political, are all features of the screen culture in which African women have evolved in myriad ways as stakeholders in the cultural production of their society and world. Telling stories through documentary …
African Women and the Documentary
African Women and the Documentary: Storytelling, Visualizing History, from the Personal to the Political1 Beti Ellerson (bio) The practice of storytelling, of relating actuality, the real, of recounting history, the personal, the social, the political, are all features of the screen culture in which African women have evolved in myriad ways as stakeholders in the cultural production of their society and world. Telling stories through documentary …
Teaching African Women in Cinema, Part Two
Teaching African Women in Cinema:Part Two Beti Ellerson (bio) The second part of this essay offers a primer on African women in cinema studies, which is based on actual courses, seminars, and lectures and draws directly from articles posted on the African Women in Cinema Blog1 since its inception in 2009. A longer version of this article was published in nine parts on the blog. Toward an African Women Cinema Studies A developing corpus of literat…
Traveling Gazes
The exilic and diasporic filmmaking experiences of African women of the screen have been evident from the start of African cinematic practices. Women have traveled and relocated outside of their homeland to study, edit, shoot, work, live, and network. Informed by Hamid Naficy's formulation of "accented cinema," this article traces these peripatetic migrations framed within selected topics that are representative of the histories, trends, and tend…
Onscreen Narratives, Offscreen Lives
Onscreen Narratives, Offscreen Lives: African Women Inscribing the Self Beti Ellerson (bio) The journeys of onscreen characters, while most do not reflect the offscreen trajectories of the real-life women, provide glimpses that parallel the paths that these women have voyaged in their own lives—perhaps influenced by their characters, or more brutally, because of them. Their travels, imaginary and real, have some relationship to their roles as act…
Remembering Djibril Diop Mambéty on the 20th Anniversary of His Death
Remembering Djibril Diop Mambéty on the 20th Anniversary of His Death Beti Ellerson1 (bio) I met Djibril Diop Mambéty during his visit to the United States in April 1997 where he was invited to the annual African Literature Association Conference hosted by Michigan State University; African cinema was the focus of the conference. I had my video camera and asked Mambéty if I could interview him. I was again struck by his approachable manner and la…
African Women of the Screen as Cultural Producers
African women as cultural producers in the realm of the moving image, screen culture, audiovisual media—what are their experiences? These women who work actively in the behind-the-scenes roles; in front of the screen as journalist, critic, cultural reader; in the corridors as organizer, activist, advocate, promoter in the vast cinematic enterprise, many wearing multiple hats as filmmaker, actor, presenter, producer, scholar. Whether working on th…
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