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Essays on the essay film / edited by Nora M. Alter; Timothy Corrigan Chichester, U.K.: Columbia University Press, 2017.
Call No: 632.22 ESSAuthor: Alter, Nora M. ; Corrigan, Timothy Place: New York; Chichester, U.K.Publisher: Columbia University PressPubDate: 2017PhysDes: ix,372 : illus. ; 23 cmSeries: Film and culture seriesSubject: DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; RICHTER, HANS ; ASTRUC, ALEXANDRE ; MARKER, CHRIS ; VERTOV, DZIGA ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; GORIN, JEAN-PIERRE ; MULVEY, LAURA ; JULIEN, ISAAC Summary: The essay—with its emphasis on the provisional and explorative rather than on definitive statements—has evolved from its literary beginnings and is now found in all mediums, including film. Today, the essay film is, arguably, one of the most widely acclaimed and critically discussed forms of filmmaking around the world, with practitioners such as Chris Marker, Hito Steyerl, Errol Morris, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and Rithy Panh. Characteristics of the essay film include the blending of fact and fiction, the mixing of art- and documentary-film styles, the foregrounding of subjective points of view, a concentration on public life, a tension between acoustic and visual discourses, and a dialogic encounter with audiences.
This anthology of fundamental statements on the essay film offers a range of crucial historical and philosophical perspectives. It provides early critical articulations of the essay film as it evolved through the 1950s and 1960s, key contemporary scholarly essays, and a selection of writings by essay filmmakers. It features texts on the foundations of the essay film by writers such as Hans Richter and André Bazin; contemporary positions by, among others, Phillip Lopate and Michael Renov; and original essays by filmmakers themselves, including Laura Mulvey and Isaac Julien. -- publishers' web siteISBN: 9780231172677Contents: Introduction, by Nora M. Alter and Timothy Corrigan
Part I. Foundations
1. "On the Nature and Form of the Essay," by Georg Lukács
2. The Man Without Qualities, by Robert Musil
3. "On the Essay and Its Prose," by Max Bense
4. "The Essay as Form," by Theodor W. Adorno
5. "Preface to The Collected Essays of Aldous Huxley," by Aldous Huxley
Part II. The Essay Film Through History
6. "The Film Essay: A New Type of Documentary Film," by Hans Richter
7. "The Future of Cinema," by Alexandre Astruc
8. "Bazin on Marker," by André Bazin
Part III. Contemporary Positions
9. "In Search of the Centaur: The Essay-Film," by Phillip Lopate
10. "The Political Im/Perceptible in the Essay Film: Farocki's Images of the World and the Inscription of War," by Nora M. Alter
11. "Essay Questions," by Paul Arthur
12. "The Electronic Essay," by Michael Renov
13. "The Essay Film: Problems, Definitions, Textual Commitments," by Laura Rascaroli
14. "Of the History of the Essay Film: Vertov, to Varda," by Timothy Corrigan
15. "The Cinema and the Essay as a Way of Thinking," by Raymond Bellour
16. "The Essay Film: From Film Festival Favorite to Flexible Commodity Form?," by Thomas Elsaesser
Part IV. Filmmakers on the Essayistic
17. "Performing Borders: Transnational Video," by Ursula Biemann
18. "Proposal for a Tussle," by Jean-Pierre Gorin
19. "The Essay as Conformism? Some Notes on Global Image Economies," by Hito Steyerl
20. "On Writing the Film Essay," by Lynne Sachs
21. "Tramp Steamer," by Ross McElwee
22. "The ABCs of the Film Essay," by Harun Farocki and Christa Blümlinger
23. "Riddles as Essay Film," by Laura Mulvey
24. "Certain Obliquenesses," by Renée Green
25. "Essay Documentary: The disembodied narrator and an unclaimed image that floats through space and time," by Rea Tajiri
26. "From Ten Thousand Waves to Lina Bo Bardi, via Kapital," by Isaac Julien
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Film : a montage of theories N.Y.: Dutton, 1966.
Call No: 62 MACAuthor: MacCann, Richard Dyer Edition: 1st edPlace: N.Y.Publisher: DuttonPubDate: 1966PhysDes: 384 p. : movie stills ; 18 cmSubject: THEORY ; AESTHETICS ; DOCUMENTARIES ; CINEMASCOPE ; NEOREALISM ; PUDOVKIN, VSEVELOD ; CLAIR, RENE ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; KNOX, ALEXANDER ; NICHOLS, DUDLEY ; BERGMAN, INGMAR ; BALAZS, BELA ; SENNETT, MACK ; VORKAPICH, SLAVKO ; RICHTER, HANS ; Grierson, John ; ZAVATTINI, CESARE ; KRACAUER, SIEGFRIED ; ROEMER, MICHAEL ; BACHMANN, GIDEON ; DREW, ROBERT ; LEACOCK, RICHARD ; PENNEBAKER, D. A. ; DREYER, CARL TH. ; VANDERBEEK, STAN ; MEKAS, JONAS ; KAEL, PAULINE ; TRUFFAUT, FRANCOIS ; Fellini, Federico ISBN: 0525471812LON: 21441213
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The German avante-garde film of the 1920's : Der Deutsche avant-garde film der 20er jahre / by Walter Schobert Munich, Germany: Goethe-Institut, 1989.
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Inventing film studies / Lee Grieveson and Haidee Wasson, editors Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.
Call No: 670 INV GRIAuthor: Grieveson, Lee ; Wasson, Haidee Source: UKPlace: DurhamPublisher: Duke University PressPubDate: 2008PhysDes: xxxii, 446 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: American Film Institute ; AVANT-GARDE FILMS ; COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGERY ; CRITICISM ; FILM ART MEDIA ; FILM CULTURE ; FILM NOIR ; FILM STUDY AND RESEARCH ; FILMOGRAPHIES ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD ; MARXISM AND THE CINEMA ; MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ; MUSEUM OF MODERN ART [NEW YORK] ; PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA ; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA ; REALISM IN FILMS ; SOCIETIES, FILM ; SOCIOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; SPECTATORSHIP ; ALTHUSSER, LOUIS ; BACHMANN, GIDEON ; BARRY, IRIS ; BAZIN, ANDRE ; BELLOUR, RAYMOND ; BERGSTROM, JANET ; BORDWELL, DAVID ; BRAKHAGE, STAN ; BURGESS, ERNEST ; BUSCOMBE, ED ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; COOK, PAM ; DEREN, MAYA ; FOUCAULT, MICHEL ; FULLER, SAMUEL ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; GRIERSON, JOHN ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; GRIFFITHS, RICHARD ; HAWKS, HOWARD ; HAYS, WILL ; HEATH, STEPHEN ; HUFF, THEODORE ; MACCABE, COLIN ; METZ, CHRISTIAN ; PARK, ROBERT ; PATTERSON, FRANCES TAYLOR ; PENLEY, CONSTANCE ; RAINER, YVONNE ; RAMSAYE, TERRY ; RICHTER, HANS ; ROTHA, PAUL ; SARRIS, ANDREW ; SCORSESE, MARTIN ; SELDES, GILBERT ; SHORT, REV WILLIAM H ; STERN, SEYMOUR ; THRASHER, FREDRICK ; VOGEL, AMOS ; VON STROHEIM, ERICH ; WEINBERG, HERMAN G ; WHANNEL, PADDY ; WOLLEN, PETER Summary: Inventing Film Studies offers original and provocative insights into the institutional and intellectual foundations of cinema studies. Many scholars have linked the origins of the discipline to late-1960s developments in the academy such as structuralist theory and student protest. Yet this collection reveals the broader material and institutional forces—both inside and outside of the university—that have long shaped the field. Beginning with the first investigations of cinema in the early twentieth century, this volume provides detailed examinations of the varied social, political, and intellectual milieus in which knowledge of cinema has been generated. The contributors explain how multiple instantiations of film study have had a tremendous influence on the methodologies, curricula, modes of publication, and professional organizations that now constitute the university-based discipline. Extending the historical insights into the present, contributors also consider the directions film study might take in changing technological and cultural environments. -- Publisher descriptionNotes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9780822342892Contents: The Academy and Motion Pictures / Lee Grieveson, Haidee Wasson
-- Making Cinema Knowable --
Cinema Studies and the Conduct of Conduct / Lee Grieveson
Taking Liberties: The Payne Fund Studies and the Creation of the Media Expert / Mark Lynn Anderson
"Reaching the Multimillions": Liberal Internationalism and the Establishment of Documentary Film / Zoe Druick
Young Art, Old Colleges: Early Episodes in the American Study of Film / Dana Polan
-- Making Cinema Educational --
Studying Movies at the Museum: The Museum of Modern Art and Cinema's Changing Object / Haidee Wasson
Classrooms, Clubs, and Community Circuits: Cultural Authority and the Film Council Movement, 1946-1957 / Charles R. Acland
Experimental Film and the Development of Film Study in America / Michael Zryd
From Cinephilia to Film Studies / Laura Mulvev, Peter Wollen
-- Making Cinema Legible --
Experimentation and Innovation in Three American Film Journals of the 1950s / Haden Guest
Screen and 1970s Film Theory / Philip Rosen
(Re)Inventing Camera Obscura / Amelie Hastie, Lynne Joyrich, Patricia White, Sharon Willis
Little Books / Mark Betz
-- Making and Remaking Cinema Studies --
Footstool Film School: Home Entertainment as Home Education / Alison Trope
Dr. Strange Media, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Film Theory / D. N. Rodowick
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