LEADER 02732nam 2200565 a 450 001 9910460878203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-13432-2 010 $a9786613134325 010 $a0-19-978179-6 035 $a(CKB)2670000000095210 035 $a(EBL)728707 035 $a(OCoLC)732067183 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000522378 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12178409 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000522378 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10528506 035 $a(PQKB)10065204 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC728707 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL728707 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10477973 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL313432 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000095210 100 $a20110222d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe essay film$b[electronic resource] $efrom Montaigne, after Marker /$fTimothy Corrigan 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (244 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-978170-2 311 $a0-19-978169-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aWhy have certain kinds of documentary and non-narrative films emerged as the most interesting, exciting, and provocative movies made in the last twenty years? Ranging from the films of Ross McElwee (Bright Leaves) and Agnes Varda (The Gleaners and I) to those of Abbas Kiarostami (Close Up) and Ari Folman (Waltz with Bashir), such films have intrigued viewers who at the same time have struggled to categorize them. Sometimes described as personal documentaries or diary films, these eclectic works are, rather, best understood as cinematic variations on the essay. So argues Tim Corrigan in this st 606 $aExperimental films$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aExperimental films$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a791.43/611 700 $aCorrigan$b Timothy$0909545 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460878203321 996 $aThe essay film$92035162 997 $aUNINA