The Essay Film - From Montaigne, After Marker

Zusatztext Inventively and insightfully, Timothy Corrigan establishes the essay film as a cinematic form of 'thinking out loud.' His eloquent book provides something similar: it is a richly productive meditation on meanings that interweaves voices, subjectivities, and resonant reflection. This essential volume now determines future consideration of this key genre. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext The definitive study of a seminal genre of nonfiction cinema, The Essay Film examines the form's origins, literary precursors, and works by its greatest practitioners, like Chris Marker, Agnès Varda, Errol Morris, Chantal Akerman, Werner Herzog, and others. Zusammenfassung The definitive study of a seminal genre of nonfiction cinema, The Essay Film examines the form's origins, literary precursors, and works by its greatest practitioners, like Chris Marker, Agnès Varda, Errol Morris, Chantal Akerman, Werner Herzog, and others.

Product details

• Authors: Timothy Corrigan, Timothy (Professor of English and Cinema Studies Corrigan, Corrigan Timothy
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2011
• EAN: 9780199781690
• ISBN: 978-0-19-978169-0
• No. of pages: 237
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film: styles & genres, Film Theory & Criticism, Film: styles and genres, Film history, theory or criticism