Focusing on Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being, this essay engages the transits
between the fictional and the autobiographical by deploying notions from narratology …

This essay aims to examine how archival material is repurposed within autobiographical
documentaries in order to reconstruct the documentarian filmmaker's self in relation to their …

Movies about significant historical personalities or landmark events like war seem to be
governed by a set of unspoken rules for the expression of gender. Films by female directors …

This article examines the documentary films made by Zhang Mengqi, a filmmaker who has
been participating in Wu Wenguang's Folk Memory Project. In line with the autobiographical …

In his article 'Nietzsche, genealogy, history', Foucault argues for a decentred approach to the
writing of history, which opposes versions of the past that proclaim a pure source, figure or …

This dissertation is based on an arts practice-led inquiry into autoethnographic video making
focusing on a group of “remembering artists,” including myself. Individual and cultural …

I would like to conclude by looking at one last Jewish autobiographical film made by a
filmmaker/theorist, one that precluded the possibility of autocritique in that the filmmaker did …

Up to this very moment of my life as an intellectual trained in cinema and cultural studies,
most of the works I've done has been purely critical inquiry; and as an attentive learner of …