'My' Self on Camera: First Person Documentary Practice in an Individualising China

ISBN-13: 9780748698219 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 240 str.

Kiki Tianqi Yu

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction: Action, Amateurness and the Changing Sense of the Individual Self; Chapter One: Female First-Person Documentary Practice: Negotiating Gendered Expectations; Chapter Two: The Amateurness and An Inward Gaze at Home; Chapter Three: Nostalgia toward Laojia: Old-home as an Imagined Past; Chapter Four: First Person Action documentary: Longing for a More Politicalised Space; Chapter Five: Ethics, Camera and Language in Contestable Minjian Public Spaces: the Problematic Public Self; Chapter Six: Camera Activism: Provocative documentation, First Person Confrontation, and Collective force; Chapter Seven: Whose Self on Camera? - Motives, Mistrust, Disputed Authenticities; Chapter Eight: From Fragile First Person Documentary Practice, to Popular online First Person Live Streaming Broadcast - Zhibo: Changing Intentions, Changing Individual Selves; Acknowledgement; Filmography; Bibliographies; Pictures; Index