The essay film : from Montaigne, after Marker / / Timothy Corrigan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910824420103321
• Autore: Corrigan Timothy
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2011
• ISBN: 1-283-13432-2; 0-19-991056-1; 9786613134325; 0-19-978179-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (237 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 791.43/611
• Soggetti: Experimental films - History and criticism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: of film and the essayistic -- Toward the essay film. On thoughts occasioned by Montaigne to Marker -- Of the history of the essay film: from Vertov, to Varda -- Essayistic thinking. About portraying expression: the essay film as inter-view -- To be elsewhere: cinematic excursions as essayistic travel -- On essayistic diaries: or, the velocities of non-place -- Of the currency of events: the essay film as editorial -- About refractive cinema: when films interrogate films.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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, Agn?s Varda, Errol Morris, Chantal Akerman, Werner Herzog, and others.