These stories, built around interviews, personal photographs, archival film and visits, are sometimes poignant and always noteworthy for their exposure of the unhealing emotional wounds, deep chasms and stubbornness surrounding parental response to homosexuality, yet they are only one part of a larger picture of that subject -- one that "Family Fundamentals" does not address.
Stillman highlights the political stakes of personal pleasures with archival clips showing the infamous 1979 Disco Demolition Night at Chicago's Comiskey Park, a record-burning that devolved into a riot mainly by white men.
The project is a labyrinthine joyride through Nance's consciousness, which he unfolds through a collage-like blend of animation (in a wide range of styles), live-action footage, archival personal images, and overlapping and echoing commentaries as well as a blend of fiction and nonfiction, of documentation and imagination, of memory and immediate experience.
Relying on both personal memory and archival research brings to life Lively's family's past -- and centuries of social change and upheaval -- by homing in on the grand pianos, potted-meat jars, samplers, gong stands and other relics from a country house in Somerset, England, where she spent much of her youth.
Immediately after publication, authors may post the "accepted" version of the paper on the author's personal or institutional archival Web site.
She draws on an impressive range of sources — camp memoirs, literary works, archival material, personal interviews, and histories in a variety of languages.
For a biography of the American poet Abbie Huston Evans (1881-1983), I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has personal recollections, letters or archival materials relating to her life.
He traced the cultural coexistence of Russians and Uzbeks from the czars to the post-Soviet era in "The End of an Era: Tashkent," a highly personal documentary with remarkable archival material that was shown at European film festivals from 1996 to 1998.
Here the archival is profoundly personal.
Having spent much of her adolescence at Golsoncott, Lively writes from personal memory as well as archival research.
