Thinking Images: The Essay Film as a Dialogic Form in European Cinema (New Studies in European Cinema, Band 3) - Softcover

Montero, David

 
9783034307307: Thinking Images: The Essay Film as a Dialogic Form in European Cinema (New Studies in European Cinema, Band 3)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3034307306 ISBN 13: 9783034307307
Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

The essay film – ‘a form that thinks’ – serves to create a self-reflexive space for contemporary society by challenging expectations and demanding the creative involvement of the spectator. Using film to provoke thought has never been more important than now, when non-fiction films are gaining in popularity and playing a growing part in debates about culture and politics. This timely publication argues that the appeal of the essay film lies primarily in the dialogic engagement with the spectator and the richness of the intellectual and artistic debate it stimulates. The book focuses on the work of three key European film directors associated with the essay film: Chris Marker, Harun Farocki and José Luis Guerín. It provides a detailed analysis of several films by each director, exploring the relationship between dialogism and essayism in their work and placing this in the wider context of debates on the cinematic essay as a genre. Central aspects of essayistic filmmaking are explored, including its radical approach to knowledge, its distinctive patterns of subjectivity, its challenging of the formal representation of reality, and its contribution to new understandings of spectatorship. Written with clarity and perception, this volume offers new insights into the rise of the non-fiction film and the essay film, in particular.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David Montero is a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher in film and communication studies at the University of Seville, Spain. He completed his PhD at the University of Bath in 2009 and has previously published on the essay film.

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Verlag
Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3034307306
ISBN 13 
9783034307307
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
194
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