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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... and sound, and serves as a social agent of historical transmission. The autobiographical texts that I address in the chapters that follow are contemporary works that offer brief glimpses into the recent past Introduction.
Jim Lane. contemporary works that offer brief glimpses into the recent past of the lives of filmmakers who are not familiar to mass audiences. Nonetheless, innovative autobiographical representations powerfully link the everyday to the ...
... past, or to endure sexism, racism, and classism. We should also be thankful for the reinvigoration of documentary film and video as well as the development of novel autobiographies exemplified by these contemporary works. The state of ...
... past been a mystified process. Reflexive documentaries demystified the cinematic apparatus with the intent of exposing the ideological position of the documentary and its maker. In the traditional documentary modes before the late ...
... past.31 No doubt, some of the self-directed movements of the seventies created parts of the atomized, politically paralyzed world that Lasch and others vilify. Today discourses on the self saturate our mass media. Nationally broadcast ...
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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 |