Searching for Angela Shelton
"She must write herself, because this is the invetion of a new insurgent writing which, when the moment of her liberation has come, will allow her to carry out the indispensible ruptures and transformations in her history," (Cixous 880). Many people in class had a major problem with Angela Shelton and her decisions she made while making her documentary, Searching for Angela Shelton. I did not have the problems that most people pointed out. It was Angela's choice to make her film however she wanted to make it. It was her documentary and she can do and say whatever she wants. She can skew the story that she is showing to portray a message that she wants. In the documentary she portrayed women as victims, which is common among the cultural representations of women in the United States. She also showed women as survivors and able to overcome extreme obstacles, which is not necessarily found in cultural representations of women. If I were Angela Shelton, I probably would not have made this film differently. I think that Angela was on a journey to find herself and to heal herself. She did what she needed to do to heal herself and perhaps she helped heal others along the way.