Belle of the ball
Making the Documentary About Vivien
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12344358 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathy Sport (University of Technology Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 126 |
| Pages | 332-340 |
| Publication date | 2005-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1031-461X • E-ISSN: 1940-5049 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10314610508682927 |
| OpenAlex | W1579833451 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
About Vivien is a fourteen-minute documentary film, which explores the experiences of Walter Lee also known as Vivien, who lived his/her life in Sydney in the 1940s, crossing the boundary of sexuality by dressing as a woman. In writing about the making of the film from the point of view of the filmmaker, I first examine the problem of the absence of documentary evidence of queer history and how stories are constructed through the use of archival footage and re-enactments. Second, I reflect on the lessons I learned telling stories about the past from the present, in particular the use of gender and sexuality categories
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Ball (mathematics · Documentary film · Film director · Human sexuality · Movie theater · Queer · Sociology · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Data Analysis and Archiving · Gender Studies
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2010 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |