Essays on the essay film / edited by Nora M. Alter and Timothy Corrigan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alter, Nora M., 1962- editor.

Corrigan, Timothy, editor.

Series:

Film and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental films--History and criticism.

Experimental films.

Documentary films--History and criticism.

Documentary films.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Essays.

Physical Description:

ix, 372 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]

Summary:

This anthology of fundamental statements on the essay film provides early critical articulations of the genre as a it evolved through the 1950s and 1960s, key contemporary scholarly essays, and a selection of writings by essay filmmakers. It features texts on the foundations of the essay film by writers such as Hans Richter and André Bazin; contemporary positions by, among others, Phillip Lopate and Michael Renov; and original essays by filmmakers themselves, including Laura Mulvey and Isaac Julien. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / Nora M. Alter and Timothy Corrigan

Part I. Foundations. "On the nature and form of the essay" / Georg Lukács

The man without qualities / Robert Musil

"On the essay and its prose" / Max Bense

"The essay as form" / Theodor W. Adorno

"Preface to The collected essays of Aldous Huxley" / Aldous Huxley

Part II. The essay film through history. "The film essay : a new type of documentary film" / Hans Richter

"The future of cinema" / Alexandre Astruc

"Bazin on marker" / André Bazin

Part III. Contemporary positions. "In search of the centaur : the essay-film" / Phillip Lopate

"The political im/perceptible in the essay film : Farocki's Images of the world and the inscription of war" / Nora M. Alter

"Essay questions" / Paul Arthur

"The electronic essay" / Michael Renov

"The essay film : problems, definitions, textual commitments" / Laura Rascaroli

"Of the history of the essay film : Vertov to Varda" / Timothy Corrigan

"The cinema and the essay as a way of thinking" / Raymond Bellour

"The essay film : from film festival favorite to flexible commodity form?" / Thomas Elsaesser

Part IV. Filmmakers on the essayistic. "Performing borders : transnational video" / Ursula Biemann

"Proposal for a tussle" / Jean-Pierre Gorin

"The essay as conformism? : some notes on global image economies" / Hito Steyerl

"On writing the film essay" / Lynne Sachs

"Tramp steamer" / Ross McElwee

"The ABCs of the film essay" / Harun Farocki and Christa Blümlinger

"Riddles as essay film" / Laura Mulvey

"Certain obliquenesses" / Renée Green

"Essay documentary : the disembodied narrator and an unclaimed image that floats through space and time" / Rea Tajiri

"From Ten thousand waves to Lina Bo Bardi, via Kapital" / Isaac Julien.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Essays on the essay film.

ISBN:

9780231172660

0231172664

9780231172677

0231172672

OCLC:

962253640

Publisher Number:

99974355953