The cinema of me : the self and subjectivity in first person documentary.

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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Lebow, Alisa
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Wallflower Press, ©2012.
Series:Nonfictions.
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Table of 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 / Andrés Di Tella
  • Impersonations of Glauber Rocha by Glauber Rocha / José Gatti
  • The self-portrait film : Michelangelo's last gaze / Laura Rascaroli
  • Cycles of life : El cielo gira and Spanish autobiographical documentary / Efrén 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.