General Information

Language

English.

Published

New York : Columbia University Press, 2017.

Physical Description

372 p. ; 23 cm.

Contributors

Contributor

Alter, Nora M., 1962- (editor.)

Corrigan, Timothy (editor.)

Subjects

Subject

Experimental films > History and criticism.

Documentary films > History and criticism.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

edited by Nora M. Alter and Timothy Corrigan.

Series

Film and culture

Content

Introduction / Nora M. Alter and Timothy Corrigan -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.

Available in another form

Online version: Essays on the essay film New York : Columbia University Press, 2017 9780231543996 (DLC) 2016056155

ISBN

9780231172660

9780231172677

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	791.43/611 ALT		Reference	-

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