Beyond the Essay Film : : Subjectivity, Textuality and Technology / / ed. by Deane Williams, Julia Vassilieva.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Bellour, Raymond,; Elsaesser, Thomas,; Gibson, Ross,; Grant, Catherine,; Martin, Adrian,; Misek, Richard,; Pesch, Katrin,; Rascaroli, Laura,; Vassilieva, Julia,; Williams, Deane,; Álvarez López, Cristina,
• HerausgeberIn: Vassilieva, Julia,; Williams, Deane,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Film Culture in Transition
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (246 p.)

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.

Table of 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