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.
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.
Brenda Hollweg is Research Fellow in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. A specialist in American literature and a scholar of the essay as literary and expanded cultural form, she worked on two major research collaborations that addressed questions of gender, genre and the essay as well as the aesthetic and affective dimensions of democratic participation. She has published on contemporary documentary and the cinematic essay and, in 2010, realized a 45min-long video essay, 'The Road to Voting'. Igor Krstic is Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Stuttgart and in the Centre for Cultural and General Studies (ZAK) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). He has published on national, world and transnational cinema, documentary film and film philosophy. He is the author of Slums on Screen: World Cinema and the Planet of Slums (Edinburgh University Press, 2016).
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List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction, Brenda Hollweg and Igor Krstic Part One: Cinephilic Dialogues 1: The Essay Film and its Global Contexts: Conversations on Forms and Practices, Laura Rascaroli, Susana Barriga, Nguyen Trinh Thi and Bo Wang 2: Essay Films about Film: The 'Filmed Correspondence' between José Luis Guerin and Jonas Mekas, Fernando Canet Part Two: Mobilities and Movements 3: Accented Essay Films: The Politics and Poetics of the Essay Film in the Age of Migration, Igor Krstic 4: 'Cottonopolis': Experimenting with the Cinematographic, the Ethnographic and the Essayistic, Cathy Greenhalgh 5: The World Essay Film and the Politics of Traceability, Giorgio Avezzù and Giuseppe Fidotta Part Three: Laboratory of Memories 6: Memory as a Motor of Images: The Essayistic Mode in Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Variations of Uncle Boonmee, Christa Blümlinger 7: 'Time Turning into Space': Innocence of Memories' Prismatic Istanbul, Tim O'Farrell 8: Lovers in Time: An Essay Film of Contested Memories, Thomas Elsaesser and Agnieszka Piotrowska Part Four: Landscapes of Trauma 9: No Man's Zone: The Essay Film in the Aftermath of the Tsunami in Japan, Marco Bohr 10: 'Image-Writing': The Essayistic in Mainland Chinese Non-fiction Cinema and Zhao Liang's Behemoth, Tianqi Yu Part Five: Archival Effects 11: Indigenous Australia and the Archive Effect: Frances Calvert's Talking Broken as Essay Film, Peter Kilroy 12: Between Autobiography, Personal Archive and Mourning: David Perlov's Diary 1973-1983 in Tel Aviv, Ilana Feldman Afterimages: a Photo-Essay 13: Strangely Real: Reassemblage from the Film Forgetting Vietnam, Trinh T. Minh-ha Notes on the Contributors Index
List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction, Brenda Hollweg and Igor Krstic Part One: Cinephilic Dialogues 1: The Essay Film and its Global Contexts: Conversations on Forms and Practices, Laura Rascaroli, Susana Barriga, Nguyen Trinh Thi and Bo Wang 2: Essay Films about Film: The 'Filmed Correspondence' between José Luis Guerin and Jonas Mekas, Fernando Canet Part Two: Mobilities and Movements 3: Accented Essay Films: The Politics and Poetics of the Essay Film in the Age of Migration, Igor Krstic 4: 'Cottonopolis': Experimenting with the Cinematographic, the Ethnographic and the Essayistic, Cathy Greenhalgh 5: The World Essay Film and the Politics of Traceability, Giorgio Avezzù and Giuseppe Fidotta Part Three: Laboratory of Memories 6: Memory as a Motor of Images: The Essayistic Mode in Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Variations of Uncle Boonmee, Christa Blümlinger 7: 'Time Turning into Space': Innocence of Memories' Prismatic Istanbul, Tim O'Farrell 8: Lovers in Time: An Essay Film of Contested Memories, Thomas Elsaesser and Agnieszka Piotrowska Part Four: Landscapes of Trauma 9: No Man's Zone: The Essay Film in the Aftermath of the Tsunami in Japan, Marco Bohr 10: 'Image-Writing': The Essayistic in Mainland Chinese Non-fiction Cinema and Zhao Liang's Behemoth, Tianqi Yu Part Five: Archival Effects 11: Indigenous Australia and the Archive Effect: Frances Calvert's Talking Broken as Essay Film, Peter Kilroy 12: Between Autobiography, Personal Archive and Mourning: David Perlov's Diary 1973-1983 in Tel Aviv, Ilana Feldman Afterimages: a Photo-Essay 13: Strangely Real: Reassemblage from the Film Forgetting Vietnam, Trinh T. Minh-ha Notes on the Contributors Index
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