Akerman, Chantal

This thesis presents a framing for analyzing forms of visual interventions by international photojournalists, documentary photographers, and filmmakers during the collapse of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union (with the focus on Russia) in the 1990s. The framing rests on the distin…

The project of self-representation utilizing fictional techniques appears in several recent autobiographical documentaries by Ashkenazi Jewish filmmakers. These independent and avant-garde films, which have proliferated in the two last decades, deploy “new,” “postmodern,” strate…