“…In the social sciences, her take on the visual is framed within a performative understanding of social sciences (Denzin, 2001). Her work, as we will show, connects questions of gender, identity, otherness, and power with issues of language, representation, and ethnography; drawing on a broad range of disciplines from philosophy to anthropology, from film studies to musicology, her filmic performances interrelate "the nature of representation in media discourse, documentary filmmaking practice, patriarchy and the construction of gender, ethnography, national and cultural identity, translations and the foreignness of language itself, social change in relation to myth and history, and the essence of revolution" (Higashi, 1990(Higashi, , p. 1124.…”