The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction - Film and Culture

Nora M. Alter reveals the essay film to be a hybrid genre that fuses the categories of feature, art, and documentary film. Like its literary predecessor, the essay film draws on a variety of forms and approaches; in the process, it fundamentally alters the shape of cinema. The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction locates the genre's origins in early silent cinema and follows its transformation with the advent of sound, its legitimation in the postwar period, and its multifaceted development at the turn of the millennium. In addition to exploring the broader history of the essay film, Alter addresses the innovative ways contemporary artists such as Martha Rosler, Isaac Julien, Harun Farocki, John Akomfrah, and Hito Steyerl have taken up the essay film in their work.

ISBN:	9780231178211
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Imprint:	Columbia University Press
Published date:	02 Jan 2018
DEWEY:	791.43611
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xii, 394
Weight:	568g
Height:	153mm
Width:	228mm
Spine width:	27mm

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