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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... my thinking about the cultural purpose of autobiography and the role of textual subjectivity, especially in regard to gender. At this writing both documentary and autobiography studies are enjoying a period of Introduction.
... role of the individual in American culture during this period. Finally, I will reflect on the theoretical and critical responses to the documentary movement in relation to recent discussions in the fields of documentary and ...
... 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 profilmic events ...
... role of violence and disbanded in the face of ever-growing internal disagreement. Splinter groups and movements developed and attempted to reconstruct an alternative politics. For instance, the historian Sara Evans argues that the ...
... role of the self in politics, such as the work of Henry David Thoreau, enjoyed renewed popularity. Some historical analyses associate the rise of experiential culture and politics with the bourgeois ideology of individualism. They ...
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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 |