The Essay Film

NOTE EDITORE

Even though essay films have been a key practice since the 1950s, there is scant analysis about this form in English. Part of this is likely due to the inherent difficulty of definition. The films, which foreground subjectivity and adopt an explicit, personal approach to their subject matter, can look and feel very different from one another. Their coherence as a group, however, comes into focus when contextualized as part of the larger tradition from which they draw. By looking to the literary and philosophical lineage of the essay form, Corrigan brings new clarity to a practice that, arguably, is one of the most common and successful in contemporary film culture. The Essay Film situates its investigation in the literary tradition of essayists such as Montaigne, Barthes, and Huxley before moving to an expansive discussion of filmmakers such as Derek Jarman, Allan Clark, Werner Herzog, Harun Farocki, Chantal Akerman, Chris Marker, Errol Morris, Nanni Moretti, Agnès Varda, Ross McElwee, Abbas Kiarostami, Raoul Ruiz, Lynne Sachs, and Trinh T. Minh-ha.

SOMMARIO

Chapter One - On Thoughts Occasioned by . . .Montaigne to MarkerChapter Two - Of the History of the Essay Film: from Vertov, to VardaChapter Three - bout Portraying Expression: The Essay Film as Inter-viewChapter Four - To Be Elsewhere: Cinematic Excursions as Essayistic TravelChapter Five - On Essayistic Diaries: Or, the Velocities of Non-PlaceChapter Six - Of the Currency of Events: The Essay Film as EditorialChapter Seven - About Refractive Cinema: When Films Interrogate Films

AUTORE

Timothy Corrigan is a Professor of English, Cinema Studies, and History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. His books include The Films of Werner Herzog, Writing About Film, New German Film: The Displaced Image, and A Cinema Without Walls.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780199781706
• Dimensioni: 231 x 15.2 x 155 mm Ø 295 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: 73 illus.
• Pagine Arabe: 256