The Autobiographical Turn in Germanophone Documentary and Experimental Film

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Edited by Robin Curtis and Angelica Fenner

Type: Studies
Subject: Countries > Germany
Keywords: Germany, documentary, experimental
Publishing date: 2014
Publisher: Camden House
Collection: Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual
Language: English

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Hardcover • 350 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-1-57113-917-7

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A volume of essays marking out a new, historically and culturally specific model for contemplating autobiographical non-fiction film and video.

There is a widespread notion in the scholarly literature on autobiographical nonfiction film that there are unchanging, universal models for the investigation of the self through audiovisual media. By insisting on the cultural andhistorical specificity of that self, the essays in this volume trace the range of politically and theoretically informed taboos, critiques, and proclivities that shape autobiographical filmmaking in German-speaking countries. Indoing so, they delineate a new model for contemplating autobiographical film and video.
The essays in this volume examine the parameters shaping the audiovisual self in the Germanophone cultural context across a variety of practices and aesthetic modes, from contemporary artists including Hito Steyerl, Ming Wong, and kate hers to Rolf Dieter Brinkmann's multimedia experiments of the 1970s, and from Helke Misselwitz's challenges to the documentary tradition in the GDR to Peter Liechti's investigations of Swiss ambivalence toward the nation's iconic landscape. The volume thus takes up a number of historically and geographically specific iterations of autobiographical discourse that in each case remain contingent on the space and time in which they are uttered.

Contributors: Dagmar Brunow, Steve Choe, Robin Curtis, Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann, Angelica Fenner, Marcy Goldberg, Feng-Mei Heberer, Rembert H ser, Waltraud Maierhofer, Christopher Pavsek, Patrik Sj berg, Carrie Smith-Prei, Anna Stainton.

Robin Curtis is Professor of Theory and Practice of Audiovisual Media at the Heinrich-Heine-University in D sseldorf, Germany.
Angelica Fenner is Associate Professor of German and Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto.

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