ABSTRACT
This chapter explores an i-doc and how the producer and director have made conscious choices to achieve narrator agency. In the project, many of the women self-identify as feminist and claim that pin up offers them feelings of empowerment. The i-doc allows for robust exploration of these claims. Oral history, while methodologically related to ethnographic research, exists in a tense relationship with ethnography. The merger of oral history with documentary is nothing new. Oral histories are frequently used as a storytelling tool within non-academic nonfiction films. Practitioners and theorists of the i-doc consider it an evolving process and product which, in large part, eludes definition. For i-docs producers, this can be a liberating exercise, but it does not come without some constraints.
