The Essay Film (eBook)

Dialogue, Politics, Utopia

Elizabeth Papazian, Caroline Eades (Herausgeber)

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2016
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-85103-9 (ISBN)

Infos

The essay film as a visual form raises new questions about the construction of the subject, its relationship to the world, and the aesthetic possibilities of cinema. This volume examines the potential of the essayistic to question, investigate, and reflect on all forms of cinema.

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With its increasing presence in a continuously evolving media environment, the essay film as a visual form raises new questions about the construction of the subject, its relationship to the world, and the aesthetic possibilities of cinema. In this volume, authors specializing in various national cinemas (Cuban, French, German, Israeli, Italian, Lebanese, Polish, Russian, American) and critical approaches (historical, aesthetic, postcolonial, feminist, philosophical) explore the essay film and its consequences for the theory of cinema while building on and challenging existing theories. Taking as a guiding principle the essay form's dialogic, fluid nature, the volume examines the potential of the essayistic to question, investigate, and reflect on all forms of cinema-fiction film, popular cinema, and documentary, video installation, and digital essay.A wide range of filmmakers are covered, from Dziga Vertov (Man with a Movie Camera, 1928), Chris Marker (Description of a Struggle, 1960), Nicolas Guillen Landrian (Coffea Arabiga, 1968), Pier Paolo Pasolini (Notes for an African Oresteia, 1969), Chantal Akerman (News from Home, 1976) and Jean-Luc Godard (Notre musique, 2004) to Nanni Moretti (Palombella Rossa, 1989), Mohammed Soueid (Civil War, 2002), Claire Denis (L'Intrus, 2004) and Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life, 2011), among others. The volume argues that the essayistic in film-as process, as experience, as experiment-opens the road to key issues faced by the individual in relation to the collective, but can also lead to its own subversion, as a form of dialectical thought that gravitates towards crisis.

Autor

Elizabeth A. Papazian is associate professor of Russian and film studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Manufacturing Truth: The Documentary Moment in Early Soviet Culture (2009).Caroline Eades is associate professor of French and film studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Le Cinéma post-colonial français (2006).

Inhalt

AcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Dialogue, Politics, Utopia, by Elizabeth A. Papazian and Caroline EadesPart I: The Essay Film as Dialogue1. Essayism and Contemporary Film Narrative, by Timothy Corrigan2. Essaying the Forms of Popular Cinema: Godard, Farocki and the Principle of Shot/Countershot, by Rick Warner3. The Practice of Strangeness: L'Intrus, from Jean-Luc Nancy (2000) to Claire Denis (2004), by Martine Beugnet4. Cinéma-vérité and Kino-pravda: Rouch, Vertov, and the Essay Form, by Caroline Eades and Elizabeth A. PapazianPart II: The Essay Film as Politics5. Notes for a Revolution: Pasolini's Postcolonial Essay Films, by Luca Caminati6. Chris Marker's Description of a Struggle and the Limits of the Essay Film, by Eric Zakim7. A Woman with a Movie Camera: Chantal Akerman's Essay Films, by Anne Eakin Moss8. 'What Does It Mean Today to Be a Communist?': Nanni Moretti's Palombella rossa and La cosa as Essay Films, by Mauro ResminiPart III: The Essay Film as Utopia9. Mohamed Soueid's Cinema of Immanence, by Laura U. Marks10. Inside/Outside: Nicolasito Guillén Landrián's Subversive Strategy in Coffea Arábiga, by Ernesto Livon-Grosman11. American Essays in How to Build a Home: Thoreau, Mekas, Proenneke, by Oliver Gaycken12. 'to speak, to hold, to live by the image': Notes in the Margins of the New Videographic Tendency, by Luka ArsenjukAfterword: The Idea of Essay Film, by Laura RascaroliIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.11.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Nonfictions
• Reihe/Serie: Nonfictions
• Zusatzinfo: 24 b&w illustrations
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 0-231-85103-0 / 0231851030
• ISBN-13: 978-0-231-85103-9 / 9780231851039