vivian price
1.vivian is a professor of GLBT studies at UCLA as well as of film and gender studies at various colleges in the uc system.
if you'd like to view her picture you can check out this website:
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/people/price.htm
aside from a phd, vivian has worked in the film industry for over ten years and also has worked as a unionized construction worker, some of her work encompasses this aspect of her (highlighting females working non-traditional jobs). her films have screened across the world.
2. vivian produced "Faces of Tradeswomen", which was commissioned by the U.S. Women's Bureau.
"In My Own Words, Against All Odds", is a film about the first african american woman the l.a. electrician's union. this film was selected for the Los Angeles Lesbian and Gay Film Festival in 1993.
"Gender in the Global Construction Site" was produced for the Beijing Women's Conference.
she also has a new film out called "Transnational Tradeswoman" and can be found through the WMM website.
3. unfortunately i can't really comment on any of these films because i haven't seen them, but i thought she was relevent because we are about to dig into documentary.
4. i found vivian price through the WMM website. after doing the reading i figured this was an easy place to start. and yes i do realize that she herself is not a "woc" but the gaze that she is projecting is an alternative one, and represents an aspect of feminist film theory that got left out in the initial understandings. isn't that what is important here?
5. this wasn't a very hard investigation, but by reading the course blog i realize how much about film makers i don't know. before taking this class the director (the gaze setter) never really mattered much to me. now i realize the importance of being informed on who is setting up the images. i see that it's not just a movie screen, but somebody's canvas.