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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lebow, Alisa.

Series:

Nonfictions.

Nonfictions series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Documentary films--Authorship.

Documentary films.

Documentary films--History and criticism.

Subjectivity in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Wallflower Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

First person singular. The role of history in the individual : working notes for a film / Michael Chanan

The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime / Andrš Di Tella

Impersonations of Glauber Rocha by Glauber Rocha / Jos ̌Gatti

The self-portrait film : Michelangelo's last gaze / Laura Rascaroli

Cycles of life : El cielo gira and Spanish autobiographical documentary / Efrň Cuevas

From the interior : space, time and queer discursivity in Kamal Aljafari's The roof / Peter Limbrick

First person plural. Jennifer Fox's transcultural talking cure : Flying : confessions of a free woman / Angelica Fenner

Secrets and inner voices : the self and subjectivity in contemporary Indian documentary / Sabeena Gadihoke

In the eye of the storm : the political stake of Israeli i-movies / Linda Dittmar

Diasporic subjectivity. Looking for home in home movies : the home mode in Caribbean diaspora first person film and video practice / Elspeth kydd

'If I am (not) for myself' : Michelle Citron's diasporic first person(s) / Sophie Mayer

The camera as peripatetic migration machine / Alisa Lebow

Virtual subjectivity. Blogging identity.com / Peter Hughes

The me and the we : a first person meditation on media translation in three acts / Alexandra Juhasz.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography (pages 268-270).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780231850162

0231850166

OCLC:

859182684