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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... Women and the Autobiographical Documentary : Historical Intervention , Writing , Alterity , and the Dialogic Engagement 145 Afterword 191 Illustrations 46 55 65 76 86 L. M. Kit Carson. Notes Filmography Works Cited Index 197 222 224 233 ...
... women documentarists. The rise of personal politics in the women's movement of the late sixties developed concurrently with the training of women documentarists in the United States. Because of this historical conjunction the woman's ...
... women's movement emerged from the impasse of the sixties by emphasizing the political nature of women's personal experiences. By bringing the domestic experience into view, women allowed for the previously undisclosed dynamic of family ...
... women.”30Consequently, Fox-Genovese argues, a mythology of individualism emerged that excluded groups of women even as it supposedly spoke for them. Christopher Lasch's criticism of this period extends to the entire U.S. social order ...
... women's movement we see that the position of the personal as political, anathema in political movements through most of the sixties, played a central role in defining the direction of women's history by the late sixties. Later, personal ...
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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 |