{"product_id":"the-personal-camera-subjective-cinema-and-the-essay-film-9781906660123","title":"The Personal Camera: Subjective Cinema and the Essay Film","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Laura Rascaroli\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Wallflower Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Asian - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Personal Camera\u003c\/i\u003e 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 Agnés Varda.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wallflower Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45037172555927,"sku":"9781906660123","price":2245.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781906660123.webp?v=1769198828","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-personal-camera-subjective-cinema-and-the-essay-film-9781906660123","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}