The essay film : from Montaigne, after Marker / Timothy Corrigan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corrigan, Timothy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental films--History and criticism.

Experimental films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: of film and the essayistic

Toward the essay film. On thoughts occasioned by Montaigne to Marker

Of the history of the essay film: from Vertov, to Varda

Essayistic thinking. About 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-283-13432-2

0-19-991056-1

9786613134325

0-19-978179-6

OCLC:

732067183

Publisher Number:

2027/heb31425 hdl