Screen LibraryThe essay film after fact and fiction /
Nora M. Alter argues that the essay film is a hybrid genre that fuses three major categories of film: feature, art, and documentary. Much like the written essay, its literary predecessor, the essay film draws on a variety of forms and approaches, fundamentally altering the shape of cinema. Alter tra...
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Columbia University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Film and culture
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| Summary: |
Nora M. Alter argues that the essay film is a hybrid genre that fuses three major categories of film: feature, art, and documentary. Much like the written essay, its literary predecessor, the essay film draws on a variety of forms and approaches, fundamentally altering the shape of cinema. Alter traces the essay film's origins to early silent cinema, charting the genre's evolution with the advent of sound, its emergence as a recognized category of film in the postwar period, and the ways the genre developed in the later twentieth century. In addition to exploring the broader history of the e |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 394 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [359]-383) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780231178211 0231178212 9780231178204 0231178204 |
| Index Number: | PN1995 |
| CLC: | J905 |
| Call Number: | J905/A466 |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Beginnings -- Speaking essays or interruptions -- The essay film as archive and repository of memories, 1947-1961 -- The essay film as the fourth estate -- The artist essay: expanding the field and the turn to video -- New migrations: third cinema and the essay film -- Beyond the cinematic screen: installations and the internet. |