Leah Anderst
Biographic Data
| ID | 1356159 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leah Anderst |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leah |
| FAMILY NAME | Anderst |
| SIGNATURE | ANDERST L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queensborough Community College, CUNY |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Testimonial Imperative, Collective Autobiography, and Individual Stories of #MeToo on Twitter
This essay looks closely at testimonials posted to Twitter as part of the viral #MeToo movement in October 2017. It examines a testimonial imperative at work in the movement, a driving need and a feeling of responsibility for survivors to come forward and join others who are speaking to share, to bear witness, and to listen to each other. The #MeToo movement has been described as a collective autobiography, but what we also see when we read #MeTo…
The Self as Evidence and Collaborative Identity in Contemporary Autobiographical Documentary
The Cinema of Eric Rohmer
I've Spent a Lot of Time Looking at These Images”
I look at three recent documentaries in which the self is framed as an interactive viewer of images that fragment the narratives of these filmmakers' autobiographies. In Agnès Varda's The Beaches of Agnès, Ross McElwee's Time Indefinite, and Jonathan Caouette's Tarnation, the directors' use of and engagement with key images stages the tension between narrative coherence and a non-unified autobiographical self
The Cinema of Eric Rohmer
I've Spent a Lot of Time Looking at These Images”
I look at three recent documentaries in which the self is framed as an interactive viewer of images that fragment the narratives of these filmmakers' autobiographies. In Agnès Varda's The Beaches of Agnès, Ross McElwee's Time Indefinite, and Jonathan Caouette's Tarnation, the directors' use of and engagement with key images stages the tension between narrative coherence and a non-unified autobiographical self
The Self as Evidence and Collaborative Identity in Contemporary Autobiographical Documentary
Testimonial Imperative, Collective Autobiography, and Individual Stories of #MeToo on Twitter
This essay looks closely at testimonials posted to Twitter as part of the viral #MeToo movement in October 2017. It examines a testimonial imperative at work in the movement, a driving need and a feeling of responsibility for survivors to come forward and join others who are speaking to share, to bear witness, and to listen to each other. The #MeToo movement has been described as a collective autobiography, but what we also see when we read #MeTo…
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