World Cinema and the Essay Film : : Transnational Perspectives on a Global Practice /

World Cinema and the Essay Film : : Transnational Perspectives on a Global Practice / / Brenda Hollweg, Igor Krstić.

Explores the essay film as a global film practiceWorld Cinema and the Essay Film examines the ways in which essay film practices are deployed by non-Western filmmakers in specific local and national contexts, in an interconnected world. The book identifies the essay film as a political and ethical t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
VerfasserIn:
Hollweg, Brenda,
Krstić, Igor,
MitwirkendeR:
Avezzù, Giorgio,
Barriga, Susana,
Blümlinger, Christa,
Bohr, Marco,
Canet, Fernando,
Elsaesser, Thomas,
Feldman, Ilana,
Fidotta, Giuseppe,
Greenhalgh, Cathy,
Hollweg, Brenda,
Kilroy, Peter,
Krstic, Igor,
Minh-ha, Trinh T.,
O’Farrell, Tim,
Piotrowska, Agnieszka,
Rascaroli, Laura,
Tianqi Yu, Kiki,
Trinh Thi, Nguyen,
Wang, Bo,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2019
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 40 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on the Contributors
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE CINEPHILIC DIALOGUES
  • 1. The Essay Film and its Global Contexts: Conversations on Forms and Practices
  • 2. Essay Films about Film: The ‘Filmed Correspondence’ between José Luis Guerin and Jonas Mekas
  • PART TWO MOBILITIES AND MOVEMENTS
  • 3. Accented Essay Films: The Politics and Poetics of the Essay Film in the Age of Migration
  • 4. Cottonopolis: Experimenting with the Cinematographic, the Ethnographic and the Essayistic
  • 5. The World Essay Film and the Politics of Traceability
  • PART THREE LABORATORY OF MEMORIES
  • 6. Memory as a Motor of Images: The Essayistic Mode in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Variations of Uncle Boonmee
  • 7. ‘Time Turning into Space’: Innocence of Memories’ Prismatic Istanbul
  • 8. Lovers in Time: An Essay Film of Contested Memories
  • PART FOUR LANDSCAPES OF TRAUMA
  • PART FOUR LANDSCAPES OF TRAUMA 9. No Man’s Zone: The Essay Film in the Aftermath of the Tsunami in Japan
  • 10. ‘Image-writing’: The Essayistic/Sanwen in Chinese Nonfiction Cinema and Zhao Liang’s Behemoth
  • PART FIVE ARCHIVAL EFFECTS
  • 11. Indigenous Australia and the Archive Effect: Frances Calvert’s Talking Broken as Essay Film
  • 12. Between Autobiography, Personal Archive and Mourning: David Perlov’s Diary 1973–1983 in Tel Aviv
  • AFTERIMAGES: A PHOTO-ESSAY
  • Strangely Real: A Reassemblage from the Film Forgetting Vietnam
  • Index

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