'My' self on camera : first person documentary practice in an individualising China /: first person documentary practice in an individualising China. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kiki Tianqi Yu.
• Authors: Yu, Kiki Tianqi
• Contents: 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. 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.
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 791.430951; Documentary films -- China -- History and criticism; Self in motion pictures
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474442107; 9780748698226
• Related ISBNs: 9780748698219
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