The Personal Camera: Subjective Cinema and the Essay Film

Laura Rascoroli

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Paper, 224 pages, 12 illus.
ISBN: 978-1-906660-12-3
$25.00 / £17.50

October, 2009
Cloth, 224 pages, 12 illus.
ISBN: 978-1-906660-13-0
Wallflower Press
$80.00 / £55.00

A fascinating book. Written with clarity, passion and style, it groups together an indispensible—but all too often overlooked—group of films and auteurs. This study forces us to rethink many old assumptions about subjectivity, documentary and the image, and brings a thoughtful analysis to how the essay film works as a narrative and expositional device.

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• Film

About the Author

Laura Rascaroli is senior lecturer in film studies at University College Cork, Ireland. She is the author, in collaboration with Ewa Mazierska, of From Moscow to Madrid: Postmodern Cities, European Cinema (2003), The Cinema of Nanni Moretti: Dreams and Diaries (2004), and Crossing New Europe: Postmodern Travel and the European Road Movie (2006).

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