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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... Approach : Narrative , Chronology , and Autobiographical Claims 48 4 Autobiographical Portraiture : Family and Self 94 5 Women and the Autobiographical Documentary : Historical Intervention , Writing , Alterity , and the Dialogic ...
... approach to expression in the United States. I argue that an autobiographical documentary can be made and read in more than one way. From the late 1960s to the late 1980s most documentaries were produced on mm film by people trained ...
... approach to filming a life story that many later documentaries adopted. David Holzman's Diary not only visually and aurally resembles many autobiographical documentaries but also evokes many of the central issues raised in the later ...
... approach to their representational scheme. These autobiographers examine the politics of masculinity from the perspectives of fathers, husbands, sons, and lovers. How these documentarists deploy moment-to-moment episodes captured on ...
... approach to cinematic aesthetics than their counterparts in the autobiographical avant-garde film movement. For the new documentarists the camera and tape recorder were tools for exploring and presenting their world by relying on the ...
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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 |