Doing Documentary, Becoming Subjects: Performance and Performativity in Contemporary Nonfiction

Doing Documentary, Becoming Subjects explores a range of contemporary nonfiction films, including autobiography, essay film and animated documentary, to understand how these films depict identities being constructed, altered and performed. By applying concepts such as performativity and Deleuze and Guattari's metaphysics, this book aims to show how the self in documentary is in constant states of becoming at the same time as the films are themselves brought into existence.

Author: Adam Vaughan
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 07/31/2025
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d
ISBN: 9781399546508