Binding: Paperback
Description: Even though essay films have been a key practice since the 1950s there is scant analysis about this form in English. Part of this is likely due to the inherent difficulty of definition. The films which foreground subjectivity and adopt an explicit personal approach to their subject matter can look and feel very different from one another. Their coherence as a group however comes into focus when contextualized as part of the larger tradition from which they draw. By looking to the literary and philosophical lineage of the essay form Corrigan brings new clarity to a practice that arguably is one of the most common and successful in contemporary film culture. The Essay Film situates its investigation in the literary tradition of essayists such as Montaigne Barthes and Huxley before moving to an expansive discussion of filmmakers such as Derek Jarman Allan Clark Werner Herzog Harun Farocki Chantal Akerman Chris Marker Errol Morris Nanni Moretti Agn's Varda Ross Mc Elwee Abbas Kiarostami Raoul Ruiz Lynne Sachs and Trinh T. Minh - ha.
Title: The Essay Film From Montaigne After Marker
Author(s): Corrigan Timothy (Professor Of English And Cinema Studies Professor Of English And Cinema Studies University Of Pennsylvania)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780199781706
Pages: 256 Pages, 73 Illus.
Publication Date: 8/1/2011
Category: Film: Styles & Genres