ABSTRACT

The amateur audiovisual rhetorics, which increasingly characterize the media world, constitute fertile grounds for a peculiar and hybrid dispositive, both therapeutic and narrative. Within a Film and Dispositive Studies framework, the genesis and evolution of such a bifid model is investigated, with the purpose of building a methodological apparatus operatively and theoretically based on the reflections upon participatory, performative documentary, and self-representational forms, as well as on the gestural domain which pertains to the creative and therapeutic course and process.