First-Person Documentary Film and Self-Life Narration

First-Person Documentary Film and Self-Life Narration

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In lieu of an abstract, here is the first paragraph of this forum contribution: My contribution to this forum on life writing contemplates life narrative practices in documentary film and proposes two theses that also bear relevance for Bird Blanket other fields and media under discussion here.Firstly, it problematizes the concepts of autobiography and life writing for their applicability to (documentary) film, arguing with Alisa Lebow for a notion of "first person film."[1] Secondly, it contends that representations of the self in documentary film are more appropriately comprehended as Escargot Plates a discourse rather than a genre.