The Essay Film

From Montaigne, After Marker
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-978170-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 428 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Corrigan, Timothy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Film, Video, Foto
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgattungen, Filmgenre
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Of Film and the Essayistic
Part I: Toward the Essay Film
Chapter One: On Thoughts Occasioned by . . .Montaigne to Marker
Chapter Two: Of the History of the Essay Film: from Vertov, to Varda
Part II: Essayistic Thinking
Chapter Three: bout Portraying Expression: The Essay Film as Inter-view
Chapter Four: To Be Elsewhere: Cinematic Excursions as Essayistic Travel
Chapter Five: On Essayistic Diaries: Or, the Velocities of Non-Place
Chapter Six: Of the Currency of Events: The Essay Film as Editorial
Chapter Seven: About Refractive Cinema: When Films Interrogate Films
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.