Description
About the Author
Elizabeth A. Papazian is associate professor of Russian and film studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Manufacturing Truth: The Documentary Moment in Early Soviet Culture (2009). Caroline Eades is associate professor of French and film studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Le Cinema post-colonial francais (2006).
Reviews
The long-awaited news flash foregrounded by The Essay Film: Dialogue, Politics, Utopia is that cinema studies has at last parted ways with moldy, genre-based epistemologies. The idea of film-thinking as a philosophia sui generis that opposes formalistic classifications has been there from the get-go-in the hearts and minds of groundbreaking film-heretics. Here we are finally offered a thoroughly researched and carefully thought-out contemplation of the primordial desires and wishful prospects of the art of filmmaking, a distinct form of human expression. This book heralds an advanced phase of maturation for cinema studies. Its straightforward willingness to destabilize its own epistemic, aesthetic, and ethical dimensions, generating authentic terms-of-being, perfectly matches the true spiritual and intellectual scope of the essay film as we know it-and, more critically, as we can never truly know its inherently unknowable stratum. The clarity of this book's statement provides a firm foundation for future revelations the essay film holds in store. -- Dan Geva, Haifa University, and documentary filmmaker This exciting collection promises to be an important milestone for ongoing debates and discussions about the emergent medium of interactive and nonlinear documentary. -- Matt Soar, Concordia University
Awards
Winner of Best Essay in an Edited Collection, Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2018.
Book Information
ISBN 9780231176958
Author Elizabeth Papazian
Format Paperback
Page Count 216
Imprint Wallflower Press
Publisher Columbia University Press