The Autobiographical Turn in Germanophone Documentary and Experimental Film

A volume of essays marking out a new, historically and culturally specific model for contemplating autobiographical non-fiction film and video.



There is a widespread notion in the scholarly literature on autobiographical nonfiction film that there are unchanging, universal models for the investigation of the self through audiovisual media. By insisting on the cultural andhistorical specificity of that self, the essays in this volume trace the range of politically and theoretically informed t...