The essay film
Subtitle: from Montaigne, after Marker
By: Timothy Corrigan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780199781690; 9780199781706
Subjects: History and criticism; Experimental films
Description: A definitive study of a seminal genre of nonfiction cinema, this book examines the essay films origins, literary precursors, and works by its greatest practitioners, like Chris Marker, Agnes Varda, Errol Morris, Chantal Akerman, Werner Herzog, and others.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: of film and the essayistic; title: Toward the essay film. On thoughts occasioned by Montaigne to Marker; title: Of the history of the essay film: from Vertov, to Varda; title: Essayistic thinking. About portraying expression: the essay film as inter-view; title: To be elsewhere: cinematic excursions as essayistic travel; title: On essayistic diaries: or, the velocities of non-place; title: Of the currency of events: the essay film as editorial; title: About refractive cinema: when films interrogate films.