How the essay film thinks

How the essay film thinks / Laura Rascaroli.

"This book offers a novel understanding of the epistemological strategies that are mobilized by the essay film, and of where and how such strategies operate. Against the backdrop of Theodor W. Adorno's discussion of the essay form's anachronistic, anti-systematic and disjunctive mode...

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Main Author: Rascaroli, Laura (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Experimental films > History and criticism.
Documentary films > History and criticism.
Motion pictures > Aesthetics.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Screenwriting.
ART > Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Documentary films
Experimental films
Motion pictures > Aesthetics
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; How the Essay Film Thinks; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction-​Openings: Thinking Cinema; 1. Medium: Liquid Image, Fluid Cinema; 2. Montage: Essayistic Thinking at the Juncture of Images; 3. Genre: The Speck of Irony and the Ethnolandscape in Ruins; 4. Temporality: The Palimpsestic Road and Diachronic Thinking; 5. Sound: The Politics of the Sonic Interstice and the Dissonance of the Neutral; 6. Narration: Epistolarity and Lyricism as Argumentation; 7. Framing: Looking for an Object, or The Essay Film as Theoretical Practice; Conclusion-​Reframing; Bibliography; Index

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