Reading Notes: Lane, Jim. (2002) “The Convergence of Autobiography and Documentary: — Historical Connections” The autobiographical documentary in America, Chapter 1

• 1993 - PBS POV shows Silverlake Life: The View from Here - an autobiographical documentary. 
• Autobiographical documentaries are "about oneself and one's family" and "the subject of the film and filmmaker often begins with a level of trust and intimacy never achieved or strived for in other films (John Stuart Katz and Judith Milstein Katz
• Three influential characteristics mark the movement
• "these works reveal how documentary can be a site of autobiographical subjectibity"
• "the rigorous placing of the self in the work complicates how nonfiction film and video represent and make references to the real world"
• " in more than thirty years since the form was established in the 1960s, autiobiographical docs have revealed an array of formal possibilities)
• They changed the way we as viewers look at documentary. 
• Authors of auto-docs are not celebs. Average everyday people
• It allows for underrepresented voices to be heard
• they produce an "unofficial" history
• They share a change in literature as well... I think around this time memoirs became popular as well.. (by non-celebs)
• The access to new media (video cameras,etc) has allowed "documentarists to reverse the homogonizing effects of mass technology and mediation"
• These docs provide alternative discourse to ones who have funding... 
• "Before the late 1960s - the dominant form of autobiographical documentaries was observational
• ---According to Bill Nichols, Voice is crucial to understanding autobiographical doc. "The viewer perceives autobio voice as the organizing force behind the doc's presentation"
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