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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.
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction; Brenda Hollweg and Igor Krstić
Part One: Cinephilic Dialogues
1. The Essay Film and its Global Contexts: Conversations on Forms and Practices; Laura Rascaroli, Susana Barriga, Nguyen Trinh Thi and Bo Wang
2. Essay Films about Film: The 'Filmed Correspondence' between José Luis Guerin and Jonas Mekas; Fernando Canet
Part Two: Mobilities and Movements
3. Accented Essay Films: The Politics and Poetics of the Essay Film in the Age of Migration; Igor Krstić
4. 'Cottonopolis': Experimenting with the Cinematographic, the Ethnographic and the Essayistic; Cathy Greenhalgh
5. The World Essay Film and the Politics of Traceability; Giorgio Avezzù and Giuseppe Fidotta
Part Three: Laboratory of Memories
6. Memory as a Motor of Images: The Essayistic Mode in Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Variations of Uncle Boonmee; Christa Blümlinger
7. 'Time Turning into Space': Innocence of Memories' Prismatic Istanbul; Tim O'Farrell
8. Lovers in Time: An Essay Film of Contested Memories; Thomas Elsaesser and Agnieszka Piotrowska
Part Four: Landscapes of Trauma
9. No Man's Zone: The Essay Film in the Aftermath of the Tsunami in Japan; Marco Bohr
10. 'Image-Writing': The Essayistic in Mainland Chinese Non-fiction Cinema and Zhao Liang's Behemoth; Tianqi Yu
Part Five: Archival Effects
11. Indigenous Australia and the Archive Effect: Frances Calvert's Talking Broken as Essay Film; Peter Kilroy
12. Between Autobiography, Personal Archive and Mourning: David Perlov's Diary 1973-1983 in Tel Aviv; Ilana Feldman
Afterimages: a Photo-Essay
13. Strangely Real: Reassemblage from the Film Forgetting Vietnam; Trinh T. Minh-ha
Notes on the Contributors
Index