| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Film culture in transition |
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Film culture in transition.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. 35 Years On: Is the 'Text', Once Again, Unattainable? -- 2. To Attain the Text. But Which Text? -- 3. Compounding the Lyric Essay Film : Towards a Theory of Poetic Counter-Narrative -- 4. 'Every love story is a ghost story' : The Spectral Network of Laurie Anderson's Heart of a Dog (2015) -- 5. Lines of Interpretation in Fields of Perception and Remembrance : The Multiscreen Array as Essay -- 6. Deborah Stratman's The Illinois Parables (2016) : Intellectual Vagabond and Vagabond Matter -- 7. Rethinking the Human, Rethinking the Essay Film : The Ecocritical Work of The Pearl Button -- 8. Montage Reloaded: From Russian Avant-Garde to the Audiovisual Essay -- 9. 'All I have to offer is myself': The Film-Maker as Narrator -- 10. The Shudder of a Cinephiliac Idea? Videographic Film Studies Practice as Material Thinking -- 11. The Home Movie as Essay Film: On Making Memory Posthumously -- Index |
| Summary |
In the wake of the explosion in the production of essay films over the last twenty-five years and its subsequent theorization in scholarly literature, this volume seeks to historicize these intertwined developments within the 'long duree' of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. 'Beyond the Essay Film' seeks to not only acknowledge the influential predecessors of this - in the view of many critics - most interesting type of contemporary filmmaking - but also to speculate about its possible transformation as we move forward into the uncharted waters of the twenty-first - digital - century. Focusing on three specific axes that underpin and shape the articulation of the essay film as a specific cultural form - subjectivity, textuality and technology - this book explores how changes along and across these dimensions affect historical shifts within essay film practice and its relation to other types of cinema and neighbouring art forms |
| Analysis |
Essay film, documentary, subjectivity, film studies, cinema |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO; viewed June 12, 2020) |
| Subject |
Documentary films.
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Film theory and criticism.
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Film: styles and genres.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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Documentary films
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Williams, Deane, editor.
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Vassilieva, Julia, editor.
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| ISBN |
9789048543922 |
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9048543924 |
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