Kiki Tianqi Yu

'My' Self on Camera

First Person Documentary Practice in an Individualising China

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Produktbeschreibung

'Understanding first person filmmaking in China as always already political, this study breaks new ground in considering the particularities of this personal form of filmmaking as it emerges in the late 20th Century China. With in-depth case studies written by a scholar who is also a filmmaker, this study is a welcome reassessment of the predominantly western-oriented scholarship on subjective/autobiographical/first person film. Tianqi Yu's book is a major contribution to the field.' Alisa Lebow, University of Sussex '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. Kiki Tianqi Yu is a filmmaker, scholar, and film curator. Her work includes feature documentary film China's van Goghs (2016), and edited volume China's iGeneration (2014). She is currently Lecturer in Filmmaking at the University of the West of Scotland. Cover image: On the other shore © YU Haibo 1988 Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-0-7486-9821-9 Barcode

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780748698219
• ISBN-10: 0748698213
• Artikelnr.: 43757101

Autorenporträt

Kiki Tianqi Yu is a filmmaker, scholar, and film curator. Her work includes feature documentary film China's van Goghs (2016), and edited volume China's iGeneration (2014). She is Lecturer in Film Practice at Queen Mary University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

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