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

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

Yu, Kiki Tianqi

Hardcover

Series: Edinburgh Studies in East Asian Film

Chinese HistoryFilm StudiesFilm Guides & Reference

ISBN10: 0748698213
ISBN13: 9780748698219
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: Nov 16 2018
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.50
Language: English

'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 filmmaking and cultural practice has become increasingly significant. Combining the approach of cultural ethnography, interviews, and textual analysis of selected films, this study examines the motivations, key aesthetic features and ethical tensions of presenting the self on camera, as well as the socio-political, cultural and technical conditions surrounding its practice. 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.

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