World Cinema and the Essay Film: Transnational Perspectives on a Global Practice by Hollweg, Brenda

World Cinema and the Essay Film: Transnational Perspectives on a Global Practice (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781474429252)

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World Cinema and the Essay Film: Transnational Perspectives on a Global Practice by Hollweg, Brenda

World Cinema and the Essay Film: Transnational Perspectives on a Global Practice

$36.95
World Cinema and the Essay Film: Transnational Perspectives on a Global Practice by Hollweg, Brenda

World Cinema and the Essay Film: Transnational Perspectives on a Global Practice

$36.95
Format: Paperback
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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.



Author: Brenda Hollweg
ISBN-10: 1474429254
ISBN-13: 9781474429252
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/16/2021
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d
By Brenda Hollweg
By Brenda Hollweg
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Brenda Hollweg is Research Fellow in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. A specialist in American literature and a scholar of the essay as literary and expanded cultural form, she worked on two major research collaborations that addressed questions of gender, genre and the essay as well as the aesthetic and affective dimensions of democratic participation. She has published on contemporary documentary and the cinematic essay and, in 2010, realized a 45min-long video essay, 'The Road to Voting'.

Igor Krstic is Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Stuttgart and in the Centre for Cultural and General Studies (ZAK) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). He has published on national, world and transnational cinema, documentary film and film philosophy. He is the author of Slums on Screen: World Cinema and the Planet of Slums (Edinburgh University Press, 2016).

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