Essay Film After Fact and Fiction

Zusatztext This book is invaluable for its scope and depth; the sheer number of films and filmmakers considered makes it an indispensable resource. Informationen zum Autor Nora M. Alter is professor of comparative film and media studies in the School of Theater! Film! and Media Arts at Temple University. She is author of Vietnam Protest Theatre: The Television War on Stage (1996); Projecting History: German Nonfiction Cinema! 1967-2000 (2002); and Chris Marker (2006). She is also coeditor with Timothy Corrigan of Essays on the Essay Film (Columbia! 2017). Zusammenfassung Nora M. Alter reveals the essay film to be a hybrid genre that fuses the categories of feature, art, and documentary film. The essay film draws on a variety of forms and approaches; in the process, it fundamentally alters the shape of cinema. The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction locates the genre’s origins and follows its transformations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Beginnings 2. Speaking Essays or Interruptions 3. The Essay Film as Archive and Repository of Memories 4. The Essay Film as the Fourth Estate 5. The Artist Essay: Expanding the Field and the Turn to Video 6. New Migrations: Third Cinema and the Essay Film 7. Beyond the Cinematic Screen: Installations and the Internet Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Nora M. Alter, Alter Nora M.
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9780231178204
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17820-4
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: Film and Culture Series; Film Culture; Film and Culture Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; ART / Film & Video, Film, TV & radio, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism