(Not) getting the credit
Women, liminal subjectivity and resisting neoliberalism in documentary production
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11268069 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne O’ Brien (0000-0003-2306-1415, National University of Ireland, Maynooth), Anne O’brien (0000-0003-1185-1460, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 673-688 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Media Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-4437 • E-ISSN: 1460-3675 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0163443717734405 |
| OpenAlex | W2763229547 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 21 |
Women experience positive engagements with documentary as an enclave that values their gendered contribution, but also suffer negative encounters with it as a genre that restricts their full involvement, by promoting masculinist practices as normative. This gendered dynamic means that women occupy a liminal space with regard to documentary. Women’s liminal status is experienced negatively in a number of ways: first, during commissioning, where their approach to narrative, budgets and directing are questioned; second, in terms of work relationships where they are required to be relentlessly ‘likeable’; and third, when credits for work performed are withheld. Women’s subjective identities are constructed around this negative liminal positioning but it can become a position or form of positive adaptation to gendered and neoliberal subjectivity in their working lives. Resistance occurs when women conduct practices such as, first, enhancing the status of affective labour; second, when they undo or reject working through normative hierarchies; and third, when they collaborate in documentary production to negate neoliberal logics of individualization. Liminality, thus, constitutes both a way of understanding women’s negative experiences of gender inequality in documentary production but also a potentially positive form of resistance to the gendered precarity that characterizes creative labour
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Liminality · Narrative · Neoliberalism (international relations · Normative · Political economy · Political science · Precarity · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Subjectivity · Anthropology · Artistic and Creative Research · Cinema and Media Studies · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Gender Studies · Law
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |