LEADER 03172cam a2200373 i 4500003 hubpceuo 005 20231027161921.0 008 161202s2017 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 2016040210 020 9780231172660 (cloth : alk. paper) 020 9780231172677 (pbk. : alk. paper) 040 DLC |beng |cDLC |erda |dDLC |dhubpceuo 041 eng 042 pcc 050 00 PN1995.9.E96 |bE88 2017 082 00 791.43/611 |223 245 00 Essays on the essay film / |cedited by Nora M. Alter and Timothy Corrigan. 260 New York : |bColumbia University Press, |c2017. 300 372 p. ; |c23 cm. 490 0 Film and culture 504 Includes bibliographical references and index (p. [363]-372). 505 0 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. 650 0 Experimental films |xHistory and criticism. 650 0 Documentary films |xHistory and criticism. 700 1 Alter, Nora M., |d1962- |eeditor. 700 1 Corrigan, Timothy |eeditor. 776 08 |iOnline version: |tEssays on the essay film |dNew York : Columbia University Press, 2017 |z9780231543996 |w(DLC) 2016056155 880 |6245 942 |2ddc |cBK 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6791_430000000000000_611_ALT |70 |8REF |9163155OSA |bOSA |d2023-09-26 |eOSA |o791.43/611 ALT |r2023-09-26 |w2023-09-26 |yBK |cReference 920 01 0X54pqox 992 01 791_430000000000000_611_ALT |bSQY_VWZZZZZZZZZZZZZ_TYY_PE6 966 |cIn the Research Room