The Essay Film
From Montaigne, After Marker
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 11 August 2011
- ISBN 9780199781706
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 231x155x15 mm
- Weight 295 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 73 illus. 0
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Short description:
The definitive study of a seminal genre of nonfiction cinema, The Essay Film examines the form's origins, literary precursors, and works by its greatest practitioners, like Chris Marker, Agn?s Varda, Errol Morris, Chantal Akerman, Werner Herzog, and others.
MoreLong description:
Even though essay films have been a key practice since the 1950s, there is scant analysis about this form in English. Part of this is likely due to the inherent difficulty of definition. The films, which foreground subjectivity and adopt an explicit, personal approach to their subject matter, can look and feel very different from one another. Their coherence as a group, however, comes into focus when contextualized as part of the larger tradition from which they draw. By looking to the literary and philosophical lineage of the essay form, Corrigan brings new clarity to a practice that, arguably, is one of the most common and successful in contemporary film culture. The Essay Film situates its investigation in the literary tradition of essayists such as Montaigne, Barthes, and Huxley before moving to an expansive discussion of filmmakers such as Derek Jarman, Allan Clark, Werner Herzog, Harun Farocki, Chantal Akerman, Chris Marker, Errol Morris, Nanni Moretti, Agn?s Varda, Ross McElwee, Abbas Kiarostami, Raoul Ruiz, Lynne Sachs, and Trinh T. Minh-ha.
The editors have similarly assembled a diverse and interdisciplinary group of renowned authors and practitioners, focusing here on the essay film's heterogeneous forms and practices. As such, this volume is a welcome addition to a growing body of literature that investigates the place of subjectivity and "the personal" within documentary filmmaking. It should also be of interest to a range of humanities students and scholars, together with nonfiction and experimental filmmakers.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Of Film and the Essayistic
Part I: Toward the Essay Film
On Thoughts Occasioned by . . .Montaigne to Marker
Of the History of the Essay Film: from Vertov, to Varda
Part II: Essayistic Thinking
bout Portraying Expression: The Essay Film as Inter-view
To Be Elsewhere: Cinematic Excursions as Essayistic Travel
On Essayistic Diaries: Or, the Velocities of Non-Place
Of the Currency of Events: The Essay Film as Editorial
About Refractive Cinema: When Films Interrogate Films
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