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Academic Casualization and Feminist Filmmaking

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Amidst the UK higher education strikes, Lorena Cervera and Isabel Seguí codirected #PrecarityStory, a short documentary that exposes the increasing precarisation of academic labour at universities. Released in 2020, the film follows a working day in the life of Isabel who, at that time, was a cleaner, researcher, and teacher at the same British elite institution. This is a (self-consciously) performative documentary (Bruzzi, 2006) inspired methodologically by the transmediatic form of Latin American testimonio, where an individual subject stands for a community and the film is an activist artefact in which ‘reality’ is managed creatively to further the political agenda of the filmmakers. This chapter explores the complexities of this approach in which a filmmaker and an empowered film subject join forces to challenge an exploitative workplace and interrogate the mode of production of collaborative cinemas.

Keywords: alternative cinemas ; Cine Mujer ; collective filmmaking ; documentary cinema ; feminist documentary ; feminist film collectives ; film history ; Latin American cinema ; Latin American women's documentary ; political cinema ; Women's cinema

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#PrecarityStory: Academic Casualization and Feminist Filmmaking
Intellect , 235 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1386/9781789387438_25
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     [Google Scholar]
  2. Balsom, E. . ( 2017;). The reality-based community. . e-flux, 83 . https://www.e-flux.com/journal/83/142332/the-reality-based-community/
    [Google Scholar]
  3. Bruzzi, S. . ( 2000). New documentary: A critical introduction. Routledge;.
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  4. Cervera, L., , & Seguí, I. . (Directors and co-producers). ( 2020). #PrecarityStory [Short documentary]. Spain and United Kingdom: Umbracle Cine and Incomedia.
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  6. Mayer, S., , & Oroz, E. . (Eds). ( 2011). The personal is political: Feminism and documentary. Fundación INAAC;.
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