Cinema of me : the self and subjectivity in first person documentary / edited by Alisa Lebow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lebow, Alisa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Documentary films--Authorship.

Documentary films.

Documentary films--History and criticism.

Subjectivity in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

xiv, 273 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Wallflower Press, 2012.

Summary:

When a filmmaker makes a film with herself as a subject, she is already divided as both the subject matter of the film and the subject making the film. The two senses of the word are immediately in play-the matter and the maker -thus the two ways of being subjectified as both subject and object. Subjectivity finds its filmic expression, not surprisingly, in very personal ways, yet it is nonetheless shaped by and in relation to collective expressions of identity that can transform the cinema of 'me' into the cinema of 'we'. Leading scholars and practitioners of first person film are brought together in this groundbreaking collection to consider the theoretical, ideological and aesthetic challenges wrought by this form of filmmaking in its diverse cultural, geographical and political contexts. Book jacket.

Contents:

First Person Singular

The Role of History in the Individual: Working Notes for a Film / Michael Chanan Chanan, Michael 15

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime / Andrés Di Telia Telia, Andrés Di 33

Impersonations of Glauber Rocha by Glauber Rocha / José Gatti Gatti, José 44

The Self-portrait Film: Michelangelo's Last Gaze / Laura Rascaroli Rascaroli, Laura 57

Cycles of Life: El cielo gira and Spanish Autobiographical Documentary / Efrén Cuevas Cuevas, Efrén 79

From the Interior: Space, Time and Queer Discursivity in Kamal Aljafari's The Roof / Peter Limbrick Limbrick, Peter 98

First Person Plural

Jennifer Fox's Transcultural Talking Cure: Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman / Angelica Fenner Fenner, Angelica 121

Secrets and Inner Voices: The Self and Subjectivity in Contemporary Indian Documentary / Sabeena Gadihoke Gadihoke, Sabeena 144

In the Eye of the Storm: The Political Stake of Israeli i-Movies / Linda Dittmar Dittmar, Linda 158

Diasporic Subjectivity

Looking for Home in Home Movies: The Home Mode in Caribbean Diaspora First Person Film and Video Practice / Elspeth kydd kydd, Elspeth 183

'If I Am (Not) for Myself': Michelle Citron's Diasporic First Person(s) / Sophie Mayer Mayer, Sophie 201

The Camera as Peripatetic Migration Machine / Alisa Lebow Lebow, Alisa 219

Virtual Subjectivity

Blogging Identity.com / Peter Hughes Hughes, Peter 235

The ME and the WE: A First Person Meditation on Media Translation in Three Acts / Alexandra Juhasz Juhasz, Alexandra 250.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780231162142

9780231162159

0231162154

9780231850162

0231850166

0231162146

OCLC:

775411467