Documenting Ourselves

Sharon R. Sherman, director of the folklore program and professor of English at the University of Oregon, is an accomplished filmmaker with more than twenty years of experience in the field and in teaching film and folklore.

出版者:The University Press of Kentucky

作者:Sharon R. Sherman

页数:336

出版时间:1997-12

价格:$ 33.90

isbn号码:9780813109343

" What happens when we turn the camera on ourselves? This question has long plagued documentary filmmakers concerned with issues of reflexivity, subject participation, and self-consciousness. Documenting Ourselves includes interviews with filmmakers Les Blank, Pat Ferrero, Jorge Preloran, Bill Ferris, and others, who discuss the ways their own productions and subjects have influenced them. Sharon Sherman examines the history of documentary filsm and discusses current theiroeis and techniques of folklore and fieldwork.