Awards

• Winner of Society for Cinema Studies Katherine S. Kovacs Book Award 2012.
• Winner of Winner of Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize 2012.

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Author:   Timothy Corrigan (Professor of English and Cinema Studies, Professor of English and Cinema Studies, University of Pennsylvania)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 16.00cm
Weight:   0.442kg
ISBN:  

9780199781690

ISBN 10:   0199781699
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   11 August 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Of Film and the Essayistic Part I: Toward the Essay Film Chapter One: One Thoughts Occasioned by . . .Montaigne to Marker Chapter Two: Of the History of the Essay Film: from Vertov, to Varda Part II: Essayistic Thinking Chapter Three: About Portraying Expression: The Essay Film as Inter-view Chapter Four: To Be Elsewhere: Cinematic Excursions on Essayistic Travel Chapter Five: On Essayistic Diaries: Or, the Velocities of Non-Peace Chapter Six: Of the Currency of Events: The Essay Film as Editorial Chapter Seven: About Refractive Cinema: When Films Interrogate Films Works Cited Index

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<br> For media artists, scholars and students of cinema, Corrigan's reflections offer a passionate and convincing testimony to the transformative power of the essay film. Not since I read Roland Barthes' Mythologies have I come across a book that provides such a strong articulation of the visual thinking process. --Lynne Sachs, filmmaker<p><br> Timothy Corrigan writes persuasively and vividly in offering up this coherent overview of the sprawling international phenomenon of the essay film. By providing a concise historical context, which ranges from Michel Montaigne to Michael Moore, he allows us to see the continuum and value of this idiosyncratic and vital form of expression. --Ross McElwee, Director, Sherman's March<p><br> Inventively and insightfully, Timothy Corrigan establishes the essay film as a cinematic form of 'thinking out loud.' His eloquent book provides something similar: it is a richly productive meditation on meanings that interweaves voices, subjectivities, and resona

<br> The Essay Film is the most compelling and spirited monograph to surface yet on the topic. --Rick Warner, Critical Quarterly<p><br> For media artists, scholars and students of cinema, Corrigan's reflections offer a passionate and convincing testimony to the transformative power of the essay film. Not since I read Roland Barthes' Mythologies have I come across a book that provides such a strong articulation of the visual thinking process. --Lynne Sachs, filmmaker<p><br> Timothy Corrigan writes persuasively and vividly in offering up this coherent overview of the sprawling international phenomenon of the essay film. By providing a concise historical context, which ranges from Michel Montaigne to Michael Moore, he allows us to see the continuum and value of this idiosyncratic and vital form of expression. --Ross McElwee, Director, Sherman's March<p><br> Inventively and insightfully, Timothy Corrigan establishes the essay film as a cinematic form of 'thinking out loud.' His eloquent bo

Author Information

Timothy Corrigan is Professor of Cinema Studies, English, and History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of New German Film and A Cinema without Walls and an editor of Critical Visions in Film Theory.

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