World cinema and the essay film : transnational perspectives on a global practice / edited by Brenda Hollweg & Igor Krstić.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hollweg, Brenda, editor.

Krstić, Igor, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental films--History and criticism.

Experimental films.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xv, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]

Contents:

Introduction / Brenda Hollweg and Igor Krstić

Cinephilic dialogues.

The essay film and its global contexts: conversations on forms and practices / Laura Rascaroli, Nguyen Trinh Thi, Bo Wang and Susana Barriga

Essay films about film: the 'filmed correspondence' between José Luis Guerin and Jonas Mekas / Fernando Canet

Mobilities and movements.

Accented essay films: the politics and poetics of the essay film in the age of migration / Igor Krstić

Cottonopolis: experimenting with the cinematographic, the ethnographic and the essayistic / Cathy Greenhalgh

The world essay film and the politics of traceability / Giorgio Avezzù and Giuseppe Fidotta

Laboratory of memories.

Memory as a motor of images: the essayistic mode in Apichatpong Weerasethakul's variations of Uncle Boonmee / Christa Blümlinger

'Time turning into space': Innocence of memories' prismatic Istanbul / Tim O'Farrell

Lovers in time: an essay film of contested memories / Thomas Elsaesser and Agnieszka Piotrowska

Landscapes of trauma.

No man's zone: the essay film in the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan / Marco Bohr

'Image-writing': the essayistic/sanwen in Chinese nonfiction cinema and Zhao Liang's Behemoth / Kiki Tianqi Yu

Archival effects.

Indigenous Australia and the archive effect: Frances Calvert's Talking broken as essay film / Peter Kilroy

Between autobiography, personal archive and mourning: David Perlov's Diary 1973-1983 in Tel Aviv / Ilana Feldman

Afterimages: a photo-essay.

Strangely real: a reassemblage from the film Forgetting Vietnam / Trinh T. Minh-ha.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1474429246

9781474429245

OCLC:

1032647208