Doing Documentary, Becoming Subjects

Adam Vaughan is a Lecturer in the Department of Film and Media at Southampton Solent University. In addition to performance and documentary cinema, his research interests include queer cinema, diversity in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and critical explorations of identity in film. He has contributed chapters to edited collections about the film Call Me By Your Name, migration in 21st-century European documentary, contemporary LGBTQIA+ film portrayals and the historical biopics of Derek Jarman.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Performance and the Performative in Documentary1. Becoming-I: First-Person Documentary2. Becoming a Body: Performing Bodies in the Films of Asif Kapadia3. Becoming-Out: Seeing Queer Identities4. Becoming-Other: Performative Disability in Documentary5. Becoming-Unseen: Elusive SubjectsAfterwordWorks CitedIndex

A timely and reflective addition to the literature on personal cinemas, Adam Vaughan’s lucidly written book locates and illuminates crucial strategies and processes of documentary performance, embodiment, reflexivity, and becoming. This is a fruitful treatment of a range of important and diverse case studies from international nonfiction film of today.