'My' Self on Camera: First Person Documentary Practice in an Individualising China

'My' Self on Camera is the first book to explore first person narrative documentary in China's post-Mao era. Since the emergence of the individual as an ever more important social figure in China, this mode of independent filmmaking and cultural practice has become increasingly significant. Combining the approach of cultural ethnography, interviews, and textual analysis of selected films, this study examines the motivations, key aesthetic features and ethical tensions of presenting the self on camera, as well as the socio-political, cultural and technical conditions surrounding its practice. This book problematises how the sense of self and subjectivities are understood in contemporary China, and provides illuminating new insights on the changing notion of the individual through cinema.

Author: Kiki Tianqi Yu
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 11/16/2018
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.30w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780748698219

About the Author

Kiki Tianqi Yu is a filmmaker, scholar, and film curator. Her work includes feature documentary film China's van Goghs (2016), and edited volume China's iGeneration (2014). She is Lecturer in Film Practice at Queen Mary University of London.