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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hollweg, Brenda, Author.

Contributor:

Hollweg, Brenda, editor.

Krstić, Igor, editor.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental films--History and criticism.

Experimental films.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

'World Cinema and the Essay Film' examines the ways in which essay film practices are deployed by non-Western filmmakers in specific local and national contexts, in an interconnected world. The text identifies the essay film as a political and ethical tool to reflect upon and potentially resist the multiple, often contradictory effects of globalisation. With case studies of essayistic works by John Akomfrah, Nguyen Trinh Thi and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, amongst many others, and with a photo-essay by Trinh T. Min-ha and a discussion of Frances Calvert's work, it expands current research on the essay film beyond canonical filmmakers and frameworks, and presents transnational perspectives on what is becoming a global film practice.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Notes on the Contributors

Introduction

PART ONE CINEPHILIC DIALOGUES

1. The Essay Film and its Global Contexts: Conversations on Forms and Practices

2. Essay Films about Film: The ‘Filmed Correspondence’ between José Luis Guerin and Jonas Mekas

PART TWO MOBILITIES AND MOVEMENTS

3. Accented Essay Films: The Politics and Poetics of the Essay Film in the Age of Migration

4. Cottonopolis: Experimenting with the Cinematographic, the Ethnographic and the Essayistic

5. The World Essay Film and the Politics of Traceability

PART THREE LABORATORY OF MEMORIES

6. Memory as a Motor of Images: The Essayistic Mode in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Variations of Uncle Boonmee

7. ‘Time Turning into Space’: Innocence of Memories’ Prismatic Istanbul

8. Lovers in Time: An Essay Film of Contested Memories

PART FOUR LANDSCAPES OF TRAUMA

PART FOUR LANDSCAPES OF TRAUMA 9. No Man’s Zone: The Essay Film in the Aftermath of the Tsunami in Japan

10. ‘Image-writing’: The Essayistic/Sanwen in Chinese Nonfiction Cinema and Zhao Liang’s Behemoth

PART FIVE ARCHIVAL EFFECTS

11. Indigenous Australia and the Archive Effect: Frances Calvert’s Talking Broken as Essay Film

12. Between Autobiography, Personal Archive and Mourning: David Perlov’s Diary 1973–1983 in Tel Aviv

AFTERIMAGES: A PHOTO-ESSAY

Strangely Real: A Reassemblage from the Film Forgetting Vietnam

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781474464772

1474464777

9781474429269

1474429262

OCLC:

1306538509