Echography of Self: Autobiographical Documentary and the Paths to Subjectivity (Self)Representation

Authors

  • Paola Lagos Labbé Universidad de Chile

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5354/rcm.v0i24.19894

Keywords:

Autobiography, Subjectivity, Documentary Cinema, Diary Films

Abstract

The article reviews the main theoretical discussions on autobiographical documentary, regarding its most recurrent narrative, formal and aesthetic strategies, in order to represent subjectivity. The introspective feature that characterizes "autobiografilmes" is delimited in a private, intimate, quotidian, affective, emotional, confessional realm, adopting settings that gather different autorepresentational resources to shape a distinct space, time and voice that come together to evoke the "self". Tracing crucial expressions of this type of non fiction film, such as diaries and self-portraits, the article closes with a projection on the challenges of contemporary autobiographical filmmaking under vertiginous technological changes linked to digital video and the proliferation of virtual platforms.

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Published

2011-01-01

How to Cite

Lagos Labbé, P. (2011). Echography of Self: Autobiographical Documentary and the Paths to Subjectivity (Self)Representation. Comunicación Y Medios, (24), Pág. 60 – 80. https://doi.org/10.5354/rcm.v0i24.19894

Issue

No. 24 (2011): Estudios de cine en América Latina

Section

monographs

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