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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... discourse created an exemplary case for what Jay Ruby said was lacking in documentary: an examination of self and one's own culture, as well as the mediating status of documentary. The influence of Chronicle of a Summer as well as other ...
... discourse that inextricably brings together autobiographers, their medium, and their life story. Filmmaking and the status of being a documentarist factor into the overall meaning of the film or video. How a spectator relates to the ...
... discourse, spearheaded by women, revitalized the individual's relation to the political and public. The postmodern theorist Fredric Jameson views such political struggle as a deeply rooted tension in radical politics of which sixties ...
... discourses is linked to American liberalism, presumes a universality of experience, and advances an arrogant individualism. The individualist position can lead to the reduction of complex social issues to problems of ego. Critics argue ...
... discourse, especially autobiographical discourse, was not always apolitical navel gazing but an attempt to understand and express one's own history through new media in the context of shifting U.S. politics. Documentary became ...
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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 |