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

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....

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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Film Culture in Transition
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Physical Description:1 online resource (246 p.)
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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