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> Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:53:33 -0700
> From: julia kristanciuk <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Autobiography as a film genre
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> I am interested in exploring the genre of autobiography in film and
> wonder
> if those of you who are knowledgeable in the area could recommend 3-4
> sources about it (books/scholarly articles).
> Thank you very much,
> Julia Kristanciuk
If you are thinking of documentary (as opposed to dramatic fiction
that is assumed autobiographical--e.g. Fellini's 8 1/2) here are some
places to start:
Jim Lane, The Autobiographical Documentary in America
Home Movies and Other Necessary Fictions (Visible Evidence, V. 4)
by Michelle Citron
discusses her own creative work (Daughter Rite, etc.) in relation to
layers of autobio experience
Several works by Julia Lesage:
"Contested Territory in FINDING CHRISTA,"Documenting the Documentary,
ed. Barry Grant (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998)
also available online:
http://www.uoregon.edu/~jlesage/Juliafolder/CHRISTA.HTML
LYNN HERSHMAN'S ELECTRONIC DIARIES
http://www.uoregon.edu/~jlesage/Juliafolder/HERSHMAN.HTML
"Women's Fragmented Consciousness in Feminist Experimental
Autobiographical Video," Feminism and Documentary, ed. Diane Waldman
and Janet Walker (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999)
Of course various experimental filmmakers have made autobiographical
work, often in diary form:
Jonas Mekas, Lost, Lost, Lost (and many more)
Stan Brakhage, Tortured Dust (and many more)
and a lot of intimate observational documentaries cover similar
territory
e.g., discussed in Jeffrey Ruoff, An American Family: A Televised Life
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