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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... strategies to represent the private everyday world of the filmmaker. Consequently, the autobiographical documentary represents one of the most consistent uses of reflexivity in American documentary. The systematic use of ...
... strategies in film, especially in Europe. In France Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin's celebrated Chronicle of a Summer became an influential model for some American documentarists who soon after reacted against the realist ideal of direct ...
... strategies in the autobiographical documentaries laid bare the material conditions under which the film was made, a practice considered taboo in direct cinema.21 A documentary is reflexive when it uses a strategy that expresses and ...
... strategies in documentary led to the possibility of references to not only “filmmaking processes” but also “self ... strategy that overthrows the possibility of historical reference in documentary. Autobiographical documentaries use ...
... strategy, saying that middle-class feminists “established their own autobiographies as the benchmark for the experience of all women.”30Consequently, Fox-Genovese argues, a mythology of individualism emerged that excluded groups of ...
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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 |