Rascaroli, Laura.

The personal camera : subjective cinema and the essay film / Subjective cinema and the essay film Laura Rascaroli. - London -- New York : Wallflower Press, 2009. - viii, 226 p. : ill. -- 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-219) and index.

The essay film: problems, definitions, textual commitments -- The metacritical voice(over) of the essay film: Harun Farocki, found footage and the essayist as spectator -- The musealisation of experience: Chris Marker\'s digital subject between archive, museum and database -- Performance and negotiation: Jean-Luc Godard plays Jean-Luc Godard -- First-person filmmaking: history, theory, practices -- The diary film: Aleksandr Sokurov\'s Spiritual Voices and the feeling of time -- The notebook film: Pier Paolo Pasolini and the film that cannot be made -- The self-portrait film: Michelangelo\'s last gaze.

9781906660123 (pbk.) 1906660123 (pbk.)


Godard, Jean-Luc, 1930-
Marker, Chris


Documentary-style films--History and criticism.
Motion pictures--History.
First person narrative.
Subjectivity in motion pictures.
Point of view (Literature)

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