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Godard and the Essay Film - A Form That Thinks (Paperback)
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Godard and the Essay Film - A Form That Thinks (Paperback)
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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 groundbreaking examination of the vast and
formidable oeuvre of Jean-Luc Godard. The essay film has often been
understood by scholars as an eccentric development within
documentary, but Warner shows how an essayistic process of thinking
can materialize just as potently within narrative fiction films,
through self-critical investigations into the aesthetic, political,
and philosophical resources of the medium. Studying examples by
Godard and other directors, such as Orson Welles, Chris Marker,
Agnes Varda, and Harun Farocki, Warner elaborates a fresh account
of essayistic reflection that turns on the imaginative,
constructive role of the viewer. Through fine-grained analyses,
this book contributes the most nuanced description yet of the
relational interface between viewer and screen in the context of
the essay film. Shedding new light on Godard's work, from the 1960s
to the 2010s, in film, television, video, and digital stereoscopy,
Warner distills an understanding of essayistic cinema as a shared
exercise of critical rumination and perceptual discovery.
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