Essays on the Essay Film

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Introduction, by Nora M. Alter and Timothy Corrigan Part I. Foundations 1. On the Nature and Form of the Essay, by Georg Lukacs 2. Man Without Qualities, by Robert Musil 3. On the and Its Prose, by Max Bense 4. The as Form, by Theodor W. Adorno 5. Preface to Collected Essays of Aldous Huxley, by Aldous Huxley Part II. Film Through History 6. The Film Essay: A New Type of Documentary Film, by Hans Richter 7. The Future of Cinema, by Alexandre Astruc 8. on Marker, by Andre Bazin Part III. Contemporary Positions 9. In Search of the Centaur: Essay-Film, by Phillip Lopate 10. The Political Im/Perceptible in the Film: Farocki's Images of the World and the Inscription of War, by Nora M. Alter 11. Essay Questions, by Paul Arthur 12. The Electronic Essay, by Michael Renov 13. The Film: Problems, Definitions, Textual Commitments, by Laura Rascaroli 14. Of the History of the Film: Vertov, to Varda, by Timothy Corrigan 15. The Cinema and the as a Way of Thinking, by Raymond Bellour 16. The Film: Film Festival Favorite to Flexible Commodity Form?, by Thomas Elsaesser Part IV. Filmmakers on the Essayistic 17. Performing Borders: Transnational Video, by Ursula Biemann 18. Proposal for a Tussle, by Jean-Pierre Gorin 19. The as Conformism? Some Notes on Global Image Economies, by Hito Steyerl 20. On Writing the Film Essay, by Lynne Sachs 21. Tramp Steamer, by Ross McElwee 22. The ABCs of the Film Essay, by Harun Farocki and Christa Blumlinger 23. Riddles as Film, by Laura Mulvey 24. Certain Obliquenesses, by Renee Green 25. Essay Documentary: disembodied narrator and an unclaimed image that floats through space and time, by Rea Tajiri 26. From Ten Thousand Waves to Lina Bo Bardi, via Kapital, by Isaac Julien Bibliography Contributors Permissions Index