Temporality in American filmic autobiography
Subtitle: cinema, automediality and grammatology with Film portrait and Joyce at 34
By: Nadja Gernalzick
Series: American studies -- volume 187; American studies (Munich, Germany) -- v. 187.
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 510
ISBN-13: 9783825356842
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Time in motion pictures; Autobiography; Motion pictures; Plots, themes; Joyce at 34
Description: Drawing on grammatology, historical semantics and discourse theory, Temporality in American Filmic Autobiography treats automediality in semiotic materiality and transmediality as processuality and relationality of agency at an intersection of auto/biography studies, film studies and media studies, reviews concepts of time in philosophy, sociology, cinema studies and narratology, and applies critical vocabularies of temporality and temporalization in an extended analysis of two classics of 1970s American filmic autobiography, Film Portrait, by Jerome Hill and Joyce at 34, by Joyce Chopra and Claudia Weill. The study of film, time and self-processing develops the grammatology of cinema from contemporary positions on cinematic semiosis, temporality, and contingency, filmic and postfilmic cinema, documentary-style film, deixis across media, and the trace as critical vocabulary. Among supplementary tables, a chapter offers an overview of the canonization and transnationalization of cinematic autobiography in anglophone research.
Notes: Originally presented as the author's Habilitation--Universität Mainz, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [459]-489) and indexes.