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Essays on the essay film

edited by Nora M. Alter and Timothy Corrigan

(Film and culture)

Columbia University Press, c2017

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-350) and index

Contents of Works

  • Introduction / Nora M. Alter and Timothy Corrigan
  • Foundations. On the Nature and Form of the Essay / Georg Lukács
  • The Man Without Qualities / Robert Musil
  • On the essay and its prose / Max Bense
  • The essay as form / Theodor W. Adorno
  • Preface to the collected essays of Aldous Huxley / Aldous Huxley
  • The essay film through history. The film essay: a new type of documentary film / Hans Richter
  • The future of cinema / Alexandre Astruc
  • Bazin on marker / André Bazin
  • Contemporary positions. In search of the centaur: the essay-film / Phillip Lopate
  • The political im/perceptible in the essay film: Farocki's images of the world and the inscription of war / Nora M. Alter
  • Essay questions / Paul Arthur
  • The electronic essay / Michael Renov
  • The essay film: problems, definitions, textual commitments / Laura Rascaroli
  • Of the history of the essay film: Vertov, to Varda / Timothy Corrigan
  • The cinema and the essay as a way of thinking / Raymond Bellour
  • The essay film: from film festival favorite to flexible commodity form / Thomas Elsaesser
  • Filmmakers on the essayistic. Performing borders: transnational video / Ursula Biemann
  • Proposal for a tussle / Jean-Pierre Gorin
  • The essay as conformism? some notes on global image economies / Hito Steyerl
  • On writing the film essay / Lynne Sachs
  • Tramp steamer / Ross McElwee
  • The ABCs of the film essay / Harun Farocki and Christa Blümlinger
  • Riddles as essay film / Laura Mulvey
  • Certain obliquenesses / Renée Green
  • Essay documentary: the disembodied narrator and an unclaimed image that floats through space and time / Rea Tajiri
  • From Ten thousand waves to Lina Bo Bardi, via Kapital / Isaac Julien

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