Godard and the Essay Film offers a history and analysis of the essay film, one of the most significant forms of intellectual filmmaking since the end of World War II. Warner incisively reconsiders the defining traits and legacies of this still-evolving genre through a groundbrea…
Introduction / Nora M. Alter and Timothy Corrigan -- Foundations. On the Nature and Form of the Essay / Georg Lukács -- The Man Without Qualities / Robert Musil -- On the essay and its prose / Max Bense -- The essay as form / Theodor W. Adorno -- Preface to the collected essays …
The essay - with its emphasis on the provisional and explorative rather than on definitive statements - has evolved from its literary beginnings and is now found in all mediums, including film. Today, the essay film is, arguably, one of the most widely acclaimed and critically d…
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Openings: Thinking Cinema -- 1. Medium: Liquid Image, Fluid Cinema -- 2. Montage: Essayistic Thinking at the Juncture of Images -- 3. Genre: The Speck of Irony and the Ethnolandscape in Ruins -- 4. Temporality:…
"This book offers a novel understanding of the epistemological strategies that are mobilized by the essay film, and of where and how such strategies operate. Against the backdrop of Theodor W. Adorno's discussion of the essay form's anachronistic, anti-systematic and disjunctive…
A definitive study of a seminal genre of nonfiction cinema, this book examines the essay films origins, literary precursors, and works by its greatest practitioners, like Chris Marker, Agnes Varda, Errol Morris, Chantal Akerman, Werner Herzog, and others.
