'My' self on camera : first person documentary practice in an individualising China / Kiki Tianqi Yu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yu, Kiki Tianqi, author.

Series:

Edinburgh studies in East Asian film.

Edinburgh studies in East Asian film

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Documentary films--China.

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 223 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

Summary:

This book problematises how the sense of self and subjectivities are understood in contemporary China, and provides illuminating new insights on the changing notion of the individual through cinema.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

List of Main Terms with Chinese Translations

List of Names with Chinese Character Translations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Action, Amateurness and the Changing Sense of the Individual Self

1 Female First Person Documentary Practice: Negotiating Gendered Expectations

2 Amateurness and an Inward Gaze at Home

3 Nostalgia toward Laojia: Old Home as an Imagined Past

4 First Person Action Documentary Practice: Longing for a More Politicised Space

5 The Problematic Public Self: Ethics, Camera and Language in Contestable Minjian Public Spaces

6 Camera Activism: Provocative Documentation, First Person Confrontation and Collective Force

7 Whose Self on Camera? Motives, Mistrust, Disputed Authenticities

8 From Fragile First Person Documentary Practice to Popular Online First Person Live Streaming Broadcast – Zhibo: Changing Intentions, Changing Individual Selves

Filmography

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Nov 2020).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-215), index and filmographies.

ISBN:

9780748698226

0748698221

OCLC:

1312726242