Timothy Corrigan (Professor of English and Professo Cinema Studies

The Essay Film

From Montaigne, After Marker

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The definitive study of a seminal genre of nonfiction cinema, The Essay Film examines the form's origins, literary precursors, and works by its greatest practitioners, like Chris Marker, Agnes Varda, Errol Morris, Chantal Akerman, Werner Herzog, and others.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 328g
• ISBN-13: 9780199781706
• ISBN-10: 0199781702
• Artikelnr.: 33139801

Autorenporträt

Timothy Corrigan is a Professor of English, Cinema Studies, and History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. His books include The Films of Werner Herzog, Writing About Film, New German Film: The Displaced Image, and A Cinema Without Walls.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Of Film and the Essayistic
* Part I: Toward the Essay Film
* Chapter One: On Thoughts Occasioned by . . .Montaigne to Marker
* Chapter Two: Of the History of the Essay Film: from Vertov, to Varda
* Part II: Essayistic Thinking
* Chapter Three: bout Portraying Expression: The Essay Film as
Inter-view
* Chapter Four: To Be Elsewhere: Cinematic Excursions as Essayistic
Travel
* Chapter Five: On Essayistic Diaries: Or, the Velocities of Non-Place
* Chapter Six: Of the Currency of Events: The Essay Film as Editorial
* Chapter Seven: About Refractive Cinema: When Films Interrogate Films
* Works Cited
* Index