Beyond the essay film : subjectivity, textuality and technology / edited by Julia Vassilieva and Deane Williams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Williams, Deane, editor.

Vassilieva, Julia, editor.

Series:

Film culture in transition.

Film culture in transition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental films--History and criticism.

Experimental films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2020.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

In the wake of the explosion in the production of essay films over the last twenty-five years and its subsequent theorization in scholarly literature, this volume seeks to historicize these intertwined developments within the 'long duree' of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Beyond the Essay Film seeks to not only acknowledge the influential predecessors of this - in the view of many critics - most interesting type of contemporary filmmaking - but also to speculate about its possible transformation as we move forward into the uncharted waters of the twenty-first - digital -century. Focusing on three specific axes that underpin and shape the articulation of the essay film as a specific cultural form - subjectivity, textuality and technology - this book explores how changes along and across these dimensions affect historical shifts within essay film practice and its relation to other types of cinema and neighbouring art forms.

Contents:

Introduction / Julia Vassilieva and Deane Williams

35 years on : is the 'text', once again, unattainable? / Raymond Bellour

To attain the text. but which text? / Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin

Compounding the lyric essay film : towards a theory of poetic counter-narrative / Laura Rascaroli

'Every love story is a ghost story' : the spectral network of Laurie Anderson's Heart of a dog (2015) / Deane Williams

Lines of interpretation in fields of perception and remembrance : the multiscreen array as essay / Ross Gibson

Deborah Stratman's The Illinois parables (2016) : intellectual vagabond and vagabond matter / Katrin Pesch

Rethinking the human, rethinking the essay film : the ecocritical work of The pearl button / Belinda Smaill

Montage reloaded : from Russian avant-garde to the audiovisual essay / Julia Vassilieva

'All I have to offer is myself' : the film-maker as narrator / Richard Misek

The shudder of a cinephiliac idea? Videographic film studies practice as material thinking / Catherine Grant

The home movie as essay film : on making memory posthumously / Thomas Elsaesser.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed January 6, 2022)

ISBN:

1-003-69161-7

90-485-6160-4

90-485-4392-4

9781003691617

OCLC:

1176194038