Forgetting as a representational strategy: Erasing the past in Girl from Moush and Passing DRAMA

Uploaded 1 December 2001 Forgetting the catastrophe At the close of a century marked both by large-scale human disaster and the technical capacity to immediately document such events, the 1990s…

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Performing Memory: Compensation and Redress in Contemporary Feminist First-Person Documentary

Uploaded 1 December 2001 Oppositions that once drove passionate debates during the heady, early days of feminist film theorizing and production have attenuated significantly in the past fifteen years. Feminism…

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Dear Diary Revisited: Transforming Personal Archives, Flag and Trick or Drink

Uploaded 1 December 2001 Introduction Autobiographical videos by American women of the late twentieth century contribute to cultural archives that include "public" explorations of "private" spheres. These independently produced experiments…

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