My Self on Camera : : First Person Documentary Practice in an Individualising China / / Kiki Tianqi Yu.
An exploration of first person narrative documentary in China’s post-Mao era‘My’ Self on Camera is the first book to explore first person narrative documentary in China’s post-Mao era. Since the emergence of the individual as an ever more important social figure in China, this mode of independent fi...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Studies in East Asian Film : ESEAF
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 20 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Main Terms with Chinese Translations
- List of Names with Chinese Character Translations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Action, Amateurness and the Changing Sense of the Individual Self
- 1 Female First Person Documentary Practice: Negotiating Gendered Expectations
- 2 Amateurness and an Inward Gaze at Home
- 3 Nostalgia toward Laojia: Old Home as an Imagined Past
- 4 First Person Action Documentary Practice: Longing for a More Politicised Space
- 5 The Problematic Public Self: Ethics, Camera and Language in Contestable Minjian Public Spaces
- 6 Camera Activism: Provocative Documentation, First Person Confrontation and Collective Force
- 7 Whose Self on Camera? Motives, Mistrust, Disputed Authenticities
- 8 From Fragile First Person Documentary Practice to Popular Online First Person Live Streaming Broadcast – Zhibo: Changing Intentions, Changing Individual Selves
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index