Research Catalog

Title

Thinking images : the essay film as a dialogic form in European cinema / David Montero.

Author

Montero, David, 1977-

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, 2012.

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Description

xi, 191 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

New studies in European cinema ; v. 3

Uniform Title

New studies in European cinema v. 3.

Subject

• Essay films
• Experimental films > Europe > History and criticism
• Farocki, Harun > Criticism and interpretation
• Guerin, José Luis > Criticism and interpretation
• Marker, Chris, 1921-2012 > Criticism and interpretation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Includes filmography.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : the thinking form -- Questions and answers: towards a dialogical understanding of the essay film -- Essayistic filmmaking as a non-fictional practice: self-reflexivity and heteroglossia in Harun Farocki's Workers leaving the factory, José Luis Guerín's Train of shadows and Chris Marker's Sunless -- Beyond the 'I': subjectivity and dialogical authorship in Chris Marker's Level 5 -- Unfinalizability, addressivity and tact: Harun Farocki's Videograms of a revolution -- Interpellation, active spectatorship and the returned gaze: José Luis Guerín's In the city of Sylvia -- Mapping the origins of an essayistic sensibility in five films -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 9783034307307 (alk. paper)
• 3034307306 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012007141

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library