Feminist Filmmaking in Teaching Digital Composition

For this week, I chose "Camara Rhetorica: A Feminist Film-making Methodology for Rhetoric and Composition" by Purdue Alumnae Alexandra Hildago. Her book is dedicated to Pat and her pedagogy and Hildago regard the book as a part of Pat's legacy.

In this book, Hildago curates moving images and fits them into the academic discourse and argues for the academic evaluation of her video book for the tenure promotion.

Her book spans 6 different chapters that cover the aspects of feminist film-making, the taxonomy of filmmaking in rhetoric and composition, how filmmaking could be part of tenure / promotion. She ends the book with her argument about the future of filmmaking in rhetoric and composition.

While she introduces the book she talks about how this book is for varied audiences and not just limited to the rhetoric and composition scholars.

She begins her book with the introduction of the principles of feminist film making and what things should be taken care of while using feminist methodologies in film-making and what constitutes feminist film-making.

She also talks a lot about issues of race, gender, and social-justice by sharing her own identity as an immigrant and how that has shaped her history / identity as a scholar and a feminist film-maker.

I have been contemplating on how we teach short film/ advertisment making in our 106 or 420 classes and how should we incorporate Hildago's argument and video as the lecture of feminist film-making. How would our white male students react to it? 

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