"There is a lot of waiting, giving the viewer time: to watch, to think, to respond, to be aware of the interview and the power relation in it."


Kotz. "Striptease East and West: Sexual Representation in Documentary Film", p4.



"From Foucault, Said, and others, there arose a series of vexing issues concerning "representation", "subjectivity", and "agency"....Could, or should, the Orient speak for itself - or was there no such thing as "the Orient"."


Russell, Jacoby. 1995 September/October. "Marginal Returns". In Lingua Franca, p31.

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