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Authorship, Autobiography and the Archive: Marilyn on Marilyn, Television and Documentary Theory

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dc.creatorKerr, Paul
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-13T11:50:25Z
dc.date.available2020-08-13T11:50:25Z
dc.date.issued2015-12-30
dc.description.abstractIn 2004, documentary theorist Michael Renov described “the recent turn to filmic autobiography” as “the defining trend of ‘post-verite’ documentary practice...” In 2008 Renov went further still, suggesting that “the very idea of autobiography challenges/reinvents the very idea of documentary.” Archive based autobiographical filmmaking, meanwhile, is even more problematic for documentary theory. Indeed, a number of recent documentaries, because of their status somewhere in the spectrum between biography and autobiography, have prompted the construction of an entirely new conceptual category, deploying archival film, often in the form of home movies, to document the lives of their human subjects in Renov’s formulation ‘shared textual authority.’ In this article I examine one of ‘my’ own archive based documentaries, Marilyn on Marilyn (BBC2, 2001), as a way of asking questions not just about biographical and autobiographical documentary but also - and perhaps more urgently - about attributions of authorship in archive-based documentary.en
dc.identifier.doi10.18146/2213-0969.2015.jethc094
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14132
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/15098
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherNetherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
dc.publisher.placeHilversum
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0969
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
dc.subjectFernsehende
dc.subjectArchiveen
dc.subjectfirst person filmsen
dc.subjectshared textual authorityen
dc.subjectauthorshipen
dc.subjectfound footageen
dc.subjectautobiographical filmmakingen
dc.subject.ddcddc:070
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.personMarilyn Monroe
dc.titleAuthorship, Autobiography and the Archive: Marilyn on Marilyn, Television and Documentary Theoryen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2021-05-29T06:08:56
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://doi.org/10.18146/2213-0969.2015.jethc094
local.source.epage79
local.source.issue8
local.source.spage67
local.source.volume4
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/118583549
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4616

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