Self-Projection: The Director’s Image in Art Cinema (University of Minnesota Press, 2014) is Linda Haverty Rugg’s most recent book. It explores how non-documentary narrative art films create alternative forms of collaborative self-representation and selfhood. Self-Projection sheds new light on the films of iconic directors and on art cinema in general, ultimately showing how film can transform not only the autobiographical act, but what it means to have a self.