Nahid Persson Sarvestani

Towards A Liquid Authorship

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by Boel Ulfsdotter

Type

Biographies

Subject

Director > Nahid Persson

Keywords

Nahid Persson, documentary

Publishing date

2025 (September 30, 2025)

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Collection

Visionaries: The Work of Women Filmmakers

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 150 pages
5 ½ x 8 ½ inches (14 x 21.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4744-7987-5

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Book Presentation:
This monograph offers a critical study of Nahid Persson Sarvestani’s documentary practice across three decades. Highlighting the filmmaker’s at times limited opportunities to record visible evidence in situ, the book frames her involvement with new documentary film technology and its influence on her practice. From a discursive point of view, Boel Ulfsdotter introduces the concept liquid authorship to position Persson Sarvestani’s work by sparring the films’ production history against different iterations of post-millennium documentary theory. In a bid to move the boundaries of traditional documentary forward, the author also studies how Persson Sarvestani applies first-person filmmaking in relation to the subject of documentary, including the relationship between director and enunciator.

The filmmaker’s documentary output is reflected against the tenets of feminist theory. To establish their discursive urgency, Boel Ulfsdotter unpicks the films’ fabric to comment on their aesthetic merits, narrative composition, including the impact of voice-over, vis-à-vis contemporary documentary practice.

About the Author:
Boel Ulfsdotter is Reader in Film Studies at the Faculty of Humanities at Gothenburg University, Sweden. Her areas of research are rooted in theoretical perspectives on female subjectivity in visual and popular culture, with special focus on documentary cinema, visual style, and screen costume. She has also published on contemporary women’s power dressing, fashion exhibition practice, and screen costume. Boel Ulfsdotter’s latest scholarly publication is Documenting Fashion (2023), co-edited with Elena Caoduro. In 2018, Ulfsdotter co-edited a twin-volume on the topic of female authorship for Edinburgh University Press: Female Authorship and the Documentary Image, and Female Agency and Documentary Strategies.

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