The essay film : from Montaigne, after Marker
A definitive study of a seminal genre of nonfiction cinema, this book examines the essay films origins, literary precursors, and works by its greatest practitioners, like Chris Marker, Agnes Varda, Errol Morris, Chantal Akerman, Werner Herzog, and others
Criticism, interpretation, etc
237 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780199781690, 9780199781706, 0199781699, 0199781702
696100363
Introduction : Of film and the essayistic
Part I. Toward the essay film : "On thoughts occasioned by ..." Montaigne to Marker
Of the history of the essay film: Vertov to Varda
Part II. Essayistic modes : About portraying expression: the essay film as inter-view
To be elsewhere: cinematic excursions as essayistic travel
On essayistic diaries, or the velocities of public life
Of the currency of events: the essay film as editorial
About refractive cinema: when films interrogate films
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