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The essay film after fact and fiction
New Review of Film and Television Studies, 2018Nora Alter’s The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction explores a notoriously elusive genre. Beginning with a poetic description of John Akomfrah’s 2015 multi-screen installation Vertigo Sea, Alter ask...
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The Home Movie as Essay Film: On Making Memory Posthumously
2020The chapter outlines the posthumous constellations that led to the making of Thomas Elsaesser’s essay film The Sun Island, about his grandfather, Martin Elsaesser, chief city architect in Frankfurt during the Weimar Republic. It reflects on the migration of non-theatrical film material into archives and art spaces, encouraging the ...
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Compounding the Lyric Essay Film : Towards a Theory of Poetic Counter-Narrative
2020Both artists and critics refer more and more to a diverse range of contemporary films as lyric or poetic essays. Lyricism is indeed acquiring increasing relevance as one of the key modes adopted by an artistic practice that is spreading fast throughout the globe. Yet, the lyric essay is still substantially undertheorized.
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Accented Essay Films: The Politics and Poetics of the Essay Film in the Age of Migration
2019Igor Krstić brings together the notion of ‘accented cinema theory’ (Hamid Naficy) with the category of the essay, in order to conceptualise a burgeoning body of film, video, and other moving image practices in what sociologists have termed ‘the age of migration.’ Through this confluence of a supposedly generic category (the essay film) with a theory ...
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The Essay Film: Problems, Definitions, Textual Commitments
Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media, 2008The label "essay film" is encountered with ever-increasing frequency in both film reviews and scholarly writings on the cinema, owing to the recent proliferation of unorthodox, personal, reflexive "new" documentaries. In an article dedicated to the phenomenon that he defines as the "recent onslaught of essay films," Paul Arthur proposes: "Galvanized by
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The essay film after fact and fiction
2020ABSTRACT - Book review of "The essay film after fact and fiction" (Nora Alter, New York: Columbia University Press, 2018, 395 pages). ISBN: 978-0-231-178211 (paperback)
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