Read more
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, Agn¿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. 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
