The essay film : dialogue, politics, Utopia / edited by Elizabeth A. Papazian and Caroline Eades.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Papazian, Elizabeth A., editor.

Eades, Caroline, editor.

Series:

Nonfictions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental films--Political aspects.

Experimental films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 pages)

Place of Publication:

London, [England] ; New York, [New York] : Wallflower Press, 2016.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

With its increasing presence in a continuously evolving media environment, the essay film as a visual form raises new questions about the construction of the subject, its relationship to the world, and the aesthetic possibilities of cinema. In this volume, authors specializing in various national cinemas (Cuban, French, German, Israeli, Italian, Lebanese, Polish, Russian, American) and critical approaches (historical, aesthetic, postcolonial, feminist, philosophical) explore the essay film and its consequences for the theory of cinema while building on and challenging existing theories. Taking as a guiding principle the essay form's dialogic, fluid nature, the volume examines the potential of the essayistic to question, investigate, and reflect on all forms of cinema—fiction film, popular cinema, and documentary, video installation, and digital essay.A wide range of filmmakers are covered, from Dziga Vertov (Man with a Movie Camera, 1928), Chris Marker (Description of a Struggle, 1960), Nicolás Guillén Landrián (Coffea Arábiga, 1968), Pier Paolo Pasolini (Notes for an African Oresteia, 1969), Chantal Akerman (News from Home, 1976) and Jean-Luc Godard (Notre musique, 2004) to Nanni Moretti (Palombella Rossa, 1989), Mohammed Soueid (Civil War, 2002), Claire Denis (L'Intrus, 2004) and Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life, 2011), among others. The volume argues that the essayistic in film—as process, as experience, as experiment—opens the road to key issues faced by the individual in relation to the collective, but can also lead to its own subversion, as a form of dialectical thought that gravitates towards crisis.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Notes On Contributors

Introduction Dialogue, Politics, Utopia

Chapter 1. Essayism And Contemporary Film Narrative

Chapter 2. Essaying The Forms Of Popular Cinema: Godard, Farocki And The Principle Of Shot/Countershot

Chapter 3. The Practice Of Strangeness: L’Intrus, From Jean-Luc Nancy (2000) To Claire Denis (2004)

Chapter 4. Cinéma-Vérité And Kino-Pravda: Rouch, Vertov And The Essay Form

Chapter 5. Notes For A Revolution: Pasolini’S Postcolonial Essay Films

Chapter 6. Chris Marker’S Description Of A Struggle And The Limits Of The Essay Film

Chapter 7. A Woman With A Movie Camera: Chantal Akerman’S Essay Films

Chapter 8. ‘What Does It Mean Today To Be A Communist?’: Nanni Moretti’S Palombella Rossa And La Cosa As Essay Films

Chapter 9. Mohamed Soueid’S Cinema Of Immanence

Chapter 10. Inside/Outside: Nicolasito Guillén Landrián’S Subversive Strategy In Coffea Arábiga

Chapter 11. American Essays In How To Build A Home: Thoreau, Mekas, Proenneke

Chapter 12. ‘To Speak, To Hold, To Live By The Image’: Notes In The Margins Of The New Videographic Tendency

Afterword. The Idea Of Essay Film

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 9, 2016).

ISBN:

9780231851039

0231851030

OCLC:

984643495