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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791423903321

Autore

Lane Jim <1959->

Titolo

The autobiographical documentary in America [[electronic resource] /] / Jim Lane

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c2002

ISBN

1-282-76412-8

9786612764127

0-299-17653-3

Descrizione fisica

xii, 246 p. : ill

Collana

Wisconsin studies in autobiography

Disciplina

920.073

Soggetti

Autobiography

Documentary films - United States - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes filmography (p. 222-223).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-232) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: Illustrations ix -- Acknowledgments xi -- Introduction 3 -- I The Convergence of Autobiography and Documentary: -- Historical Connections I I -- 2 David Holzman's Diary: An Unlikely Beginning 33 -- 3 The Journal Entry Approach: Narrative, Chronology, and -- Autobiographical Claims 48 -- 4 Autobiographical Portraiture: Family and Self 94 -- 5 Women and the Autobiographical Documentary: Historical -- Intervention, Writing, Alterity, and the Dialogic Engagement 145 -- Afterword I9I -- Notes 197 -- Filmography 222 -- Works Cited 224 -- Index 233.