{"title":"Representational risks associated with interview-based animated documentaries.","authors":"Alex Widdowson","doi":"10.1386/ap3_00032_1","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article provides an analysis of representational issues associated with interview-based animated documentary productions directed by non-autistic filmmakers, attempting to represent one or more autistic participants. The article draws insights from three case studies: A Is for Autism <i>(Webb 1992)</i>, An Alien in the Playground (Glynne 2009) and the author's own practice-based research film, Drawing on Autism (Widdowson 2021). Drawing insights from psychoanalysis, film theory and ethnography, the article will examine animated documentary practice in terms of the risks of Othering participants, look for evidence of the filmmaker's unconscious bias and consider how the cinematic gaze can be used to decode ideological systems that informed their construction. From this analysis, the author reaches the conclusion that the properties of documentaries, that rely on animation rather than live-action cinematography, present a specific set of ethical responsibilities that skew towards issues of representation.</p>","PeriodicalId":516863,"journal":{"name":"Animation practice, process & production","volume":"11 1","pages":"81-107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7615599/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Animation practice, process & production","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ap3_00032_1","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2023/12/20 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This article provides an analysis of representational issues associated with interview-based animated documentary productions directed by non-autistic filmmakers, attempting to represent one or more autistic participants. The article draws insights from three case studies: A Is for Autism (Webb 1992), An Alien in the Playground (Glynne 2009) and the author's own practice-based research film, Drawing on Autism (Widdowson 2021). Drawing insights from psychoanalysis, film theory and ethnography, the article will examine animated documentary practice in terms of the risks of Othering participants, look for evidence of the filmmaker's unconscious bias and consider how the cinematic gaze can be used to decode ideological systems that informed their construction. From this analysis, the author reaches the conclusion that the properties of documentaries, that rely on animation rather than live-action cinematography, present a specific set of ethical responsibilities that skew towards issues of representation.
本文分析了由非自闭症电影制片人执导，试图表现一名或多名自闭症参与者的访谈类动画纪录片的表现问题。文章从三个案例研究中汲取启示：A Is for Autism》（Webb，1992 年）、《An Alien in the Playground》（Glynne，2009 年）以及作者自己的实践研究影片《Drawing on Autism》（Widdowson，2021 年）。文章将从精神分析、电影理论和人种学中汲取灵感，从参与者被他者化的风险角度审视动画纪录片实践，寻找电影制作者无意识偏见的证据，并思考如何利用电影凝视来解码构建纪录片的意识形态系统。通过上述分析，作者得出结论：依赖动画而非真人电影摄影的纪录片的特性，提出了一系列特定的伦理责任，这些责任偏向于代表性问题。
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