The Cinema of Me: The Self and Subjectivity in First Person Documentary

The Cinema of Me: The Self and Subjectivity in First Person Documentary
ISBN-10
0231850166
ISBN-13
9780231850162
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
288
Language
English
Published
2012-05-29
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Author
Alisa Lebow

Description

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.

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