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Celebrity and Vulnerability in Three Documentaries by Barbara Kopple
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This chapter examines the role of emotion, specifically vulnerability, in three of Kopple’s recent films that focus on representations of women and their experiences. In Running from Crazy (2013), Kopple explores with Mariel Hemingway the mental illness and suicide that permeate the Hemingway family history and Mariel's struggles to understand them. Miss Sharon Jones! (2015) chronicles the funk and soul singer's diagnosis and battle with pancreatic cancer just as her career reaches new heights. This is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous (2017) is a portrait of Gigi Lazzarato, a transgender YouTube star who struggles for identity, happiness, and acceptance in transphobic worlds both online and offline. Drawing theories of documentary representation, trauma, and witnessing, this chapter demonstrates how Kopple deftly balances the witness and her story of each portrait within the demands of nonfiction filmmaking.
Title: Celebrity and Vulnerability in Three Documentaries by Barbara Kopple
Description:
This chapter examines the role of emotion, specifically vulnerability, in three of Kopple’s recent films that focus on representations of women and their experiences.
In Running from Crazy (2013), Kopple explores with Mariel Hemingway the mental illness and suicide that permeate the Hemingway family history and Mariel's struggles to understand them.
Miss Sharon Jones! (2015) chronicles the funk and soul singer's diagnosis and battle with pancreatic cancer just as her career reaches new heights.
This is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous (2017) is a portrait of Gigi Lazzarato, a transgender YouTube star who struggles for identity, happiness, and acceptance in transphobic worlds both online and offline.
Drawing theories of documentary representation, trauma, and witnessing, this chapter demonstrates how Kopple deftly balances the witness and her story of each portrait within the demands of nonfiction filmmaking.
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