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

ISBN-13: 9781474474122 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 240 str.

Kiki Tianqi Yu

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