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On replacement : cultural, social and psychological representationsAbstract
The question of the ethics of a documentary film has been debated for decades, with the work of Emmanuel Levinas gaining a particular currency lately. My own contribution to this debate focused on the relationship between the filmmaker and the subject of her film – a process that under certain circumstances could evoke a deep bond between the filmmaker and her subjects, and which I claim is similar to a mechanism which clinical psychoanalysis calls ‘transference’. This chapter looks at Stories We Tell (Polley 2012) and examines it as a site of reparation. I also investigate the notion of obsolete technology and fake archive as pivotal in Polley’s project, which I see as a way of a reclaiming the lost agency of the filmmaker’s mother vis-à-vis the patriarchal systems that she inhabited.Citation
Piotrowska A (2018) 'Replacement and reparation in Sarah Polley’s Stories we tell', in Owen J, Segal N (ed(s).). On replacement : cultural, social and psychological representations, Springer International Publishing pp231-240Publisher
Springer International PublishingAdditional Links
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-76011-7_22Type
Book chapterLanguage
enISBN
9783319760100ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1007/978-3-319-76011-7_22