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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... acknowledge the profound influence of two teachers: Alfred Guzzetti, who first showed me the ways in which documentary can explore the world, and Ed Pincus, who showed me how documentary can explore the self. They also exposed the false ...
... acknowledges the movement's influence on the broader field of American autobiographical practices. The authors of the autobiographical documentary typically are not public figures. They are not artists with a large body of established ...
... acknowledge the problem of the grand model of historical reference. Consequently, these films and videos move between life and representation, scene and narrational acts, where authorization reflexively declares its own position in the ...
... acknowledges. Moreover, representations of the real by autobiographical narrative acts hinge, at least in part, on the referential claims of both autobiography and documentary, which, for critics like Renov, are a nostalgic endeavor ...
... acknowledges. Nevertheless, the referential capacity of these representations must not be denied, given the complicated interplay between life and representation. Renov uses roland BARTHES by roland barthes to exemplify his notion of ...
Inhoudsopgave
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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 |