1. 35 Years On: Is the ‘Text’, Once Again, Unattainable?

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 7
3. Acknowledgments 9
4. Introduction 11
5. 1. 35 Years On: Is the ‘Text’, Once Again, Unattainable? 33
6. 2. To Attain the Text. But Which Text? 49
7. 3. Compounding the Lyric Essay Film : Towards a Theory of Poetic Counter-Narrative 75
8. 4. ‘Every love story is a ghost story’ : The Spectral Network of Laurie Anderson’s Heart of a Dog (2015) 95
9. 5. Lines of Interpretation in Fields of Perception and Remembrance : The Multiscreen Array as Essay 111
10. 6. Deborah Stratman’s The Illinois Parables (2016) : Intellectual Vagabond and Vagabond Matter 121
11. 7. Rethinking the Human, Rethinking the Essay Film : The Ecocritical Work of The Pearl Button 141
12. 8. Montage Reloaded: From Russian Avant-Garde to the Audiovisual Essay 165
13. 9. ‘All I have to offer is myself’: The Film-Maker as Narrator 189
14. 10. The Shudder of a Cinephiliac Idea? Videographic Film Studies Practice as Material Thinking 199
15. 11. The Home Movie as Essay Film: On Making Memory Posthumously 215
16. Index 241