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Thinking Images - The Essay Film as a Dialogic Form in European Cinema (Paperback, New edition)
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Thinking Images - The Essay Film as a Dialogic Form in European Cinema (Paperback, New edition)
Series: New Studies in European Cinema, 3
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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 GuerÃn. 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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