Beyond the Essay Film : : Subjectivity, Textuality and Technology / / ed. by Deane Williams, Julia Vassilieva.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Bellour, Raymond,; Elsaesser, Thomas,; Gibson, Ross,; Grant, Catherine,; Martin, Adrian,; Misek, Richard,; Pesch, Katrin,; Rascaroli, Laura,; Vassilieva, Julia,; Williams, Deane,; Álvarez López, Cristina,
• HerausgeberIn: Vassilieva, Julia,; Williams, Deane,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Film Culture in Transition
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (246 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. 35 Years On: Is the ‘Text’, Once Again, Unattainable? --; 2. To Attain the Text. But Which Text? --; 3. Compounding the Lyric Essay Film : Towards a Theory of Poetic Counter-Narrative --; 4. ‘Every love story is a ghost story’ : The Spectral Network of Laurie Anderson’s Heart of a Dog (2015) --; 5. Lines of Interpretation in Fields of Perception and Remembrance : The Multiscreen Array as Essay --; 6. Deborah Stratman’s The Illinois Parables (2016) : Intellectual Vagabond and Vagabond Matter --; 7. Rethinking the Human, Rethinking the Essay Film : The Ecocritical Work of The Pearl Button --; 8. Montage Reloaded: From Russian Avant-Garde to the Audiovisual Essay --; 9. ‘All I have to offer is myself’: The Film-Maker as Narrator --; 10. The Shudder of a Cinephiliac Idea? Videographic Film Studies Practice as Material Thinking --; 11. The Home Movie as Essay Film: On Making Memory Posthumously --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789048543922; 9783110689556; 9783110738230; 9783110696295; 9783110704655; 9783110704785; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110696301
• DOI: 10.1515/9789048543922?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Deane Williams, Julia Vassilieva.

In the wake of the explosion in the production of essay films over the last twenty-five years and its subsequent theorization in scholarly literature, this volume seeks to historicize these intertwined developments within the 'long duree' of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Beyond the Essay Film seeks to not only acknowledge the influential predecessors of this - in the view of many critics - most interesting type of contemporary filmmaking - but also to speculate about its possible transformation as we move forward into the uncharted waters of the twenty-first - digital -century. Focusing on three specific axes that underpin and shape the articulation of the essay film as a specific cultural form - subjectivity, textuality and technology - this book explores how changes along and across these dimensions affect historical shifts within essay film practice and its relation to other types of cinema and neighbouring art forms.