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World Cinema and the Essay Film

Transnational Perspectives on a Global Practice
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2019

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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. The book identifies the essay film as a political and ethical tool to reflect upon and potentially resist the multiple, often contradictory effects of globalization. With case studies of essayistic works by John Akomfrah, Nguyen Trinh Thi and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, amongst many others, and with a photo-essay by Trinh T. Min-ha and a discussion of Frances Calvert’s work, it expands current research on the essay film beyond canonical filmmakers and frameworks, and presents transnational perspectives on what is becoming a global film practice.

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    Frontmatter

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    CONTENTS

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    List of Figures

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    Acknowledgements

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    Notes on the Contributors

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    Introduction

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    Brenda Hollweg and Igor Krstic
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  • PART ONE CINEPHILIC DIALOGUES
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    1. The Essay Film and its Global Contexts: Conversations on Forms and Practices

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    Laura Rascaroli, Nguyen Trinh Thi, Bo Wang and Susana Barriga
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    2. Essay Films about Film: The ‘Filmed Correspondence’ between José Luis Guerin and Jonas Mekas

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    Fernando Canet
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  • PART TWO MOBILITIES AND MOVEMENTS
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    3. Accented Essay Films: The Politics and Poetics of the Essay Film in the Age of Migration

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    Igor Krstic
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    4. Cottonopolis: Experimenting with the Cinematographic, the Ethnographic and the Essayistic

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    Cathy Greenhalgh
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    5. The World Essay Film and the Politics of Traceability

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    Giorgio Avezzù and Giuseppe Fidotta
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  • PART THREE LABORATORY OF MEMORIES
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    6. Memory as a Motor of Images: The Essayistic Mode in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Variations of Uncle Boonmee

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    Christa Blümlinger
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    7. ‘Time Turning into Space’: Innocence of Memories’ Prismatic Istanbul

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    Tim O’Farrell
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    8. Lovers in Time: An Essay Film of Contested Memories

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    Thomas Elsaesser and Agnieszka Piotrowska
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  • PART FOUR LANDSCAPES OF TRAUMA
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    PART FOUR LANDSCAPES OF TRAUMA 9. No Man’s Zone: The Essay Film in the Aftermath of the Tsunami in Japan

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    Marco Bohr
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    10. ‘Image-writing’: The Essayistic/Sanwen in Chinese Nonfiction Cinema and Zhao Liang’s Behemoth

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    Kiki Tianqi Yu
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  • PART FIVE ARCHIVAL EFFECTS
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    11. Indigenous Australia and the Archive Effect: Frances Calvert’s Talking Broken as Essay Film

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    Peter Kilroy
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    12. Between Autobiography, Personal Archive and Mourning: David Perlov’s Diary 1973–1983 in Tel Aviv

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    Ilana Feldman
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  • AFTERIMAGES: A PHOTO-ESSAY
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    Strangely Real: A Reassemblage from the Film Forgetting Vietnam

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    Trinh T. Minh-ha
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    Index

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474429269
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Keywords for this book
Film; Media & Cultural Studies
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For universities and colleges of further and higher education
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