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Essays on the essay film / edited by Nora M. Alter and Timothy Corrigan.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Film and culturePublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]Description: ix, 372 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231172660
  • 0231172664
  • 9780231172677
  • 0231172672
  • 9780231172660
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Essays on the essay film.DDC classification:
  • 791.43611 23
LOC classification:
  • E88 2017
Contents:
Introduction / Nora M. Alter and Timothy Corrigan -- Part I. Foundations. "On the nature and form of the essay" / Georg Lukács -- The man without qualities / Robert Musil -- "On the essay and its prose" / Max Bense -- "The essay as form" / Theodor W. Adorno -- "Preface to The collected essays of Aldous Huxley" / Aldous Huxley -- Part II. The essay film through history. "The film essay : a new type of documentary film" / Hans Richter -- "The future of cinema" / Alexandre Astruc -- "Bazin on marker" / André Bazin -- Part III. Contemporary positions. "In search of the centaur : the essay-film" / Phillip Lopate -- "The political im/perceptible in the essay film : Farocki's Images of the world and the inscription of war" / Nora M. Alter -- "Essay questions" / Paul Arthur -- "The electronic essay" / Michael Renov -- "The essay film : problems, definitions, textual commitments" / Laura Rascaroli -- "Of the history of the essay film : Vertov to Varda" / Timothy Corrigan -- "The cinema and the essay as a way of thinking" / Raymond Bellour -- "The essay film : from film festival favorite to flexible commodity form?" / Thomas Elsaesser -- Part IV. Filmmakers on the essayistic. "Performing borders : transnational video" / Ursula Biemann -- "Proposal for a tussle" / Jean-Pierre Gorin -- "The essay as conformism? : some notes on global image economies" / Hito Steyerl -- "On writing the film essay" / Lynne Sachs -- "Tramp steamer" / Ross McElwee -- "The ABCs of the film essay" / Harun Farocki and Christa Blümlinger -- "Riddles as essay film" / Laura Mulvey -- "Certain obliquenesses" / Renée Green -- "Essay documentary : the disembodied narrator and an unclaimed image that floats through space and time" / Rea Tajiri -- "From Ten thousand waves to Lina Bo Bardi, via Kapital" / Isaac Julien.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Nora M. Alter and Timothy Corrigan -- Part I. Foundations. "On the nature and form of the essay" / Georg Lukács -- The man without qualities / Robert Musil -- "On the essay and its prose" / Max Bense -- "The essay as form" / Theodor W. Adorno -- "Preface to The collected essays of Aldous Huxley" / Aldous Huxley -- Part II. The essay film through history. "The film essay : a new type of documentary film" / Hans Richter -- "The future of cinema" / Alexandre Astruc -- "Bazin on marker" / André Bazin -- Part III. Contemporary positions. "In search of the centaur : the essay-film" / Phillip Lopate -- "The political im/perceptible in the essay film : Farocki's Images of the world and the inscription of war" / Nora M. Alter -- "Essay questions" / Paul Arthur -- "The electronic essay" / Michael Renov -- "The essay film : problems, definitions, textual commitments" / Laura Rascaroli -- "Of the history of the essay film : Vertov to Varda" / Timothy Corrigan -- "The cinema and the essay as a way of thinking" / Raymond Bellour -- "The essay film : from film festival favorite to flexible commodity form?" / Thomas Elsaesser -- Part IV. Filmmakers on the essayistic. "Performing borders : transnational video" / Ursula Biemann -- "Proposal for a tussle" / Jean-Pierre Gorin -- "The essay as conformism? : some notes on global image economies" / Hito Steyerl -- "On writing the film essay" / Lynne Sachs -- "Tramp steamer" / Ross McElwee -- "The ABCs of the film essay" / Harun Farocki and Christa Blümlinger -- "Riddles as essay film" / Laura Mulvey -- "Certain obliquenesses" / Renée Green -- "Essay documentary : the disembodied narrator and an unclaimed image that floats through space and time" / Rea Tajiri -- "From Ten thousand waves to Lina Bo Bardi, via Kapital" / Isaac Julien.

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