'My' Self on Camera: First Person Documentary Practice in an Individualising China
- Submitting institution
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Queen Mary University of London
: B - Film
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies : B - Film
- Output identifier
- 1568
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN
- 9780748698219
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- 'My' Self on Camera, the first book exploring first person documentary in post-Mao China, is a major departure from the predominantly western-oriented scholarship on the formation of subjectivity and autobiographical films. Combining cultural ethnography, interviews, and textual analysis, this ground-breaking interdisciplinary research examines a number of little known 'I' films and amateur political practices in the specific socio-political and technological contexts. It demonstrates that the Confucian relational self still largely underpins how individuals understand the self. Analysing how filmmakers make culturally rooted ethical and aesthetic choices, it provides illuminating new insights on the changing notion of the individual through cinema.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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