Essays on the Essay Film (Film and Culture Series)

Synopsis

Introduction / Nora M. Alter And Timothy Corrigan -- Part I. Foundations. On The Nature And Form Of The Essay / Georg Lukács -- The Man Without Qualities / Robert Musil -- On The Essay And Its Prose / Max Bense -- The Essay As Form / Theodor W. Adorno -- Preface To The Collected Essays Of Aldous Huxley / Aldous Huxley -- Part Ii. The Essay Film Through History. The Film Essay : A New Type Of Documentary Film / Hans Richter -- The Future Of Cinema / Alexandre Astruc -- Bazin On Marker / André Bazin -- Part Iii. Contemporary Positions. In Search Of The Centaur : The Essay-film / Phillip Lopate -- The Political Im/perceptible In The Essay Film : Farocki's Images Of The World And The Inscription Of War / Nora M. Alter -- Essay Questions / Paul Arthur -- The Electronic Essay / Michael Renov -- The Essay Film : Problems, Definitions, Textual Commitments / Laura Rascaroli -- Of The History Of The Essay Film : Vertov To Varda / Timothy Corrigan -- The Cinema And The Essay As A Way Of Thinking / Raymond Bellour -- The Essay Film : From Film Festival Favorite To Flexible Commodity Form? / Thomas Elsaesser -- Part Iv. Filmmakers On The Essayistic. Performing Borders : Transnational Video / Ursula Biemann -- Proposal For A Tussle / Jean-pierre Gorin -- The Essay As Conformism? : Some Notes On Global Image Economies / Hito Steyerl -- On Writing The Film Essay / Lynne Sachs -- Tramp Steamer / Ross Mcelwee -- The Abcs Of The Film Essay / Harun Farocki And Christa Blümlinger -- Riddles As Essay Film / Laura Mulvey -- Certain Obliquenesses / Renée Green -- Essay Documentary : The Disembodied Narrator And An Unclaimed Image That Floats Through Space And Time / -- Rea Tajiri -- From Ten Thousand Waves To Lina Bo Bardi, Via Kapital / Isaac Julien. Edited By Nora M. Alter And Timothy Corrigan. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.