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Essay Archive - Analysis of Chris Marker's "La Jetee", and Roland Barthes's "Camera Lucida"
Analysis of Chris Marker's "La Jetee", and Roland Barthes's "Camera Lucida"
When I began to look at the relationship between Chris Marker's
film, La Jetee, and Roland Barthes's book, Camera Lucida, I was thinking
only about their most obvious link: photography. The more I looked, though,
the more Marker and Barthes seemed to have in common. It was almost
uncanny. Some things had to be twisted a little, but the strangest sort of
interplay between the two works seemed to be happening, and it felt as if I
were the first to discover it....
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