Screen LibraryWorld cinema and the essay film : transnational perspectives on a global practice /
World Cinema and the Essay Film examines the ways in which essay film practices are deployed by non-Western filmmakers in specific local and national contexts, in an interconnected world. The book identifies the essay film as a political and ethical tool to reflect upon and potentially resist the mu...
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Edinburgh University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Edinburgh : |
| Publication Dates: | [2021] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
World Cinema and the Essay Film examines the ways in which essay film practices are deployed by non-Western filmmakers in specific local and national contexts, in an interconnected world. The book identifies the essay film as a political and ethical tool to reflect upon and potentially resist the multiple, often contradictory effects of globalization. With case studies of essayistic works by John Akomfrah, Nguyen Trinh Thi and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, amongst many others, and with a photo-essay by Trinh T. Min-ha and a discussion of Frances Calvert's work, it expands current research on the essay film beyond canonical filmmakers and frameworks, and presents transnational perspectives on what is becoming a global film practice. |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781474429252 1474429254 9781474429245 1474429246 |
| Index Number: | PN1995 |
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J952 J905 |
| Call Number: | J905/W927 |
| Contents: |
Cinephilic dialogues. -- The essay film and its global contexts: conversations on forms and practices / Essay films about film: the 'filmed correspondence' between José Luis Guerin and Jonas Mekas / Mobilities and movements. -- Accented essay films: the politics and poetics of the essay film in the age of migration / Cottonopolis: experimenting with the cinematographic, the ethnographic and the essayistic / The world essay film and the politics of traceability / Laboratory of memories. -- Memory as a motor of images: the essayistic mode in Apichatpong Weerasethakul's variations of Uncle Boonmee / 'Time turning into space': Innocence of memories' prismatic Istanbul / Lovers in time: an essay film of contested memories / Landscapes of trauma. -- No man's zone: the essay film in the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan / 'Image-writing': the essayistic/sanwen in Chinese nonfiction cinema and Zhao Liang's Behemoth / Archival effects. -- Indigenous Australia and the archive effect: Frances Calvert's Talking broken as essay film / Between autobiography, personal archive and mourning: David Perlov's Diary 1973-1983 in Tel Aviv / Afterimages: a photo-essay. -- Strangely real: a reassemblage from the film Forgetting Vietnam / |