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The Autobiographical Documentary in America Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography William L. Andrews General Editor The Autobiographical Documentary in America Jim Lane The University of Wisconsin Press The University of Wisconsin Press Monroe Street Madison, Wisconsin www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/ Henrietta Street London WCE LU, England Copyright © The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lane, Jim, – The autobiographical documentary in America / Jim Lane. 262 pp. cm. — (Wisconsin studies in autobiography) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN ---(cloth: alk. paper) ISBN ---(paper: alk. paper) . Autobiography. . Documentary films—United States. I. Title. II. Series. CT.L .—dc For Kate, Emma, and my friend Jaromil Contents Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction The Convergence of Autobiography and Documentary: Historical Connections David Holzman’s Diary:An Unlikely Beginning The Journal Entry Approach: Narrative, Chronology, and Autobiographical Claims Autobiographical Portraiture: Family and Self Women and the Autobiographical Documentary: Historical Intervention, Writing, Alterity, and the Dialogic Engagement Afterword Notes Filmography Works Cited Index vii Illustrations L.M. Kit Carson as the confrontational David Holzman, ca. Ed and Jane Pincus (Diaries [–]) Mark Rance’s mother and uncle Howard searching for her father’s grave (Death and the Singing Telegram[]) Ross McElwee with a member of a southern survivalist group that he encountered while filming Sherman’s March() Mark Massi and Tom Joslin (Silverlake Life: The View from Here[]) Filmmaker Alfred Guzzetti’s grandfather, Beniamino Giovanni Verlengia; grandmother, Pauline Verlengia; and mother, Susan, as a baby (Family Portrait Sittings) Chaim Ravett as a boy, ca. , in a Polish school photograph (Everything’s for You) Robb Moss in a publicity shot for The Tourist() Tony Buba with the depressed Braddock, Pennsylvania, in the background (Lightning over Braddock []) The eponymous Joe and Maxi, ca. A young Christa, ca. , around the time of her adoption Mindy Faber constructs a life puppet (Delirium[]) ix
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