Doing Documentary, Becoming Subjects : Performance and Performativity in Contemporary Nonfiction / Adam Vaughan, Adam Vaughan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vaughan, Adam, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.) : 9 B&W images

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2025]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Doing Documentary, Becoming Subjects explores a range of contemporary nonfiction films, including autobiography, essay film and animated documentary, to understand how these films depict identities being constructed, altered and performed. By applying concepts such as performativity and Deleuze and Guattari’s metaphysics, this book aims to show how the self in documentary is in constant states of becoming at the same time as the films are themselves brought into existence.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1 Becoming-I: First-Person Documentary

CHAPTER 2 Becoming a Body: Performing Bodies in the Films of Asif Kapadia

CHAPTER 3 Becoming-Out: Seeing Queer Identities

CHAPTER 4 Becoming-Other: Performative Disability in Documentary

CHAPTER 5 Becoming-Unseen: Elusive Subjects

AFTERWORD

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Apr 2025)

ISBN:

9781399546515

1399546511