The Autobiographical Documentary in AmericaUniv of Wisconsin Press, 29 apr 2002 - 264 pagina's Since the late 1960s, American film and video makers of all genres have been fascinated with themes of self and identity. Though the documentary form is most often used to capture the lives of others, Jim Lane turns his lens on those media makers who document their own lives and identities. He looks at the ways in which autobiographical documentaries—including Roger and Me, Sherman’s March, and Silverlake Life—raise weighty questions about American cultural life. What is the role of women in society? What does it mean to die from AIDS? How do race and class play out in our personal lives? What does it mean to be a member of a family? Examining the history, diversity, and theoretical underpinnings of this increasingly popular documentary form, Lane tracks a fundamental transformation of notions of both autobiography and documentary. |
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... Mark Rance's mother and uncle Howard searching for her father's grave ( Death and the Singing Telegram ( 1983 ] ) Ross McElwee with a member of a southern survivalist group that he encountered while filming Sherman's March ( 1986 ) Mark ...
... Mark Rance, Abraham Ravett, Jay Ruby, Ann Schaetzel, Stephen Schrader, Marco Williams, Stephen Mamber, Gerald O'Grady, William Rothman, Alisa Simon, Bo Smith, and David Woods. I especially wish to acknowledge the profound influence of ...
... Mark Massi attempted to keep his partner's close-up in frame. Weeping behind the camera, Massi told viewers that Joslin had just died and that he loved Joslin very much. Viewers may have been shocked, deeply moved, or even puzzled as to ...
Jim Lane. Three influential characteristics mark the movement as one of the most significant paths taken by American documentarists in recent years. First, these works reveal how documentary can be a site of autobiographical subjectivity ...
... Mark Rance's Death and the Singing Telegram (1984), Ross McElwee's Sherman's March: A Meditation on the Possibility of Romantic Love in the South during an Era of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation(1986), Marco Williams's In Search of Our ...
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Narrative Chronology and Autobiographical Claims | 48 |
Family and Self | 94 |
Historical Intervention Writing Alterity and the Dialogic Engagement | 145 |
Afterword | 191 |
Notes | 197 |
Filmography | 222 |
Works Cited | 224 |
Index | 233 |