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OverviewThe Personal Camera is an exploration of an elusive but more and more compelling field: essayistic cinema. The essay film, together with its cognate forms--the diary, the travelogue, the notebook and the self-portrait--is cinema in the first person. It is a cinema of thought, of investigation and self-reflection, in which the filmmaker, instead of withdrawing behind the camera, comes out into the open, to say 'I', to take responsibility, and to address and engage with the spectator within a shared space of embodied subjectivity. Authorial, experimental and radical, essayistic cinema belongs within the lineage of avant-garde and political filmmaking and responds above all to the need we feel today for more contingent, autobiographical, private forms of expression. This study provides a unique insight into an intricate but fascinating field, by engaging with the work of directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker, Harun Farocki, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alexander Sokurov, Michelangelo Antonioni, Derek Jarman, Federico Fellini, Wim Wenders, Jonas Mekas and Agn's Varda. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Laura RascoroliPublisher: Wallflower Press Imprint: Wallflower Press Dimensions: Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 25.00cm Weight: 0.666kg ISBN: 9781906660130ISBN 10: 1906660131 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 01 October 2009 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of stock ![]() Table of ContentsReviews<p>Rascaroli's text is one of impressive intellectual rigor and of utter importance to the study of an ever-changing form -- subjective cinema -- and of filmmaking at large.--Daniele Rugo Scope (01/01/0001) Rascaroli's text is one of impressive intellectual rigor and of utter importance to the study of an ever-changing form - subjective cinema - and of filmmaking at large.--Daniele Rugo Scope (01/01/0001) Author InformationLaura Rascoroli. n/a Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |