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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... played an important role in the development of the autobiographical documentary. Before the late 1960s the dominant form of American documentaries was observational. The filmmaker was a nonparticipant and had no personal stake in the ...
... played a central role in defining the direction of women's history by the late sixties. Later, personal politics and autobiography appeared in documentaries made by individuals with alternative social affiliations, including sexual ...
... played a central role in autobiographical criticism across literature, film, still photography, painting, and other media. Poststructuralist critiques have shown that reference can be a highly problematic category for nonfiction ...
... play of signifiers. In contrast, Paul John Eakin suggests that a reading of Barthes's autobiography as a poststructuralist autobiography that depletes any possibility of the self outside the text might be hasty. Eakin sees a tension in ...
... plays the role of the speaker as well as the referent—lacks a cinematic equivalent.53 Cinema is far less codified than language and therefore cannot secure the signifiers necessary to construct a typical autobiographical text. Because ...
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 |