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The Essay Film: Dialogue, Politics, Utopia

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Description for The Essay Film: Dialogue, Politics, Utopia Hardback. Editor(s): Papazian, Elizabeth Astrid; Eades, Caroline. Series: Nonfictions. Num Pages: 216 pages, 24 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
With its increasing presence in a continuously evolving media environment, the essay film as a visual form raises new questions about the construction of the subject, its relationship to the world, and the aesthetic possibilities of cinema. In this volume, authors specializing in various national cinemas (Cuban, French, German, Israeli, Italian, Lebanese, Polish, Russian, American) and critical approaches (historical, aesthetic, postcolonial, feminist, philosophical) explore the essay film and its consequences for the theory of cinema while building on and challenging existing theories. Taking as a guiding principle the essay form's dialogic, fluid nature, the volume examines the potential of the ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
Series
Nonfictions
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231176941
SKU
V9780231176941
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About Elizabeth Papazian
Elizabeth A. Papazian is associate professor of Russian and film studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Manufacturing Truth: The Documentary Moment in Early Soviet Culture (2009). Caroline Eades is associate professor of French and film studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Le Cinema post-colonial francais ... Read more

Reviews for The Essay Film: Dialogue, Politics, Utopia
The long-awaited news flash foregrounded by The Essay Film: Dialogue, Politics, Utopia is that cinema studies has at last parted ways with moldy, genre-based epistemologies. The idea of film-thinking as a philosophia sui generis that opposes formalistic classifications has been there from the get-go-in the hearts and minds of groundbreaking film-heretics. Here we are finally offered a thoroughly researched and ... Read more

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