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

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231162154
• ISBN13: 9780231162159
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Wallflower Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher