Quarterly Review of Film and Video 审稿人-刊鹿论文编译

Review of Essays on the Essay Film

Abstract:

Edited by Nora Alter and Timothy Corrigan, the book Essays on the Essay Film is a chronologically organized collection of writings that range from the foundational theories of Georg Luk acs, Max Bense, and Theodor Adorno, to reflections on specific films by contemporary essay filmmakers such as Ross McElwee, Ren ee Green, and Isaac Julien. The collection is in conversation with Corrigan’s 2011 book, The Essay Film: From Montaigne, After Marker, in which he speaks of the essay film by bringing in numerous cinematic, literary, and photographic examples. Released in 2017, Essays on The Essay Film contains writings by the principal figures referred to in The Essay Film, providing both a context for, and an expansion of, the former. The running theme of the collection is the elusive nature of the essay genre. In the first part of the collection, “Foundations,” it is historical context that engenders existential anxiety and gives rise to the study of the essay. The first piece of the collection, Lukacs’ “On the Nature and Form of the Essay,” responds to “a modernist crisis affecting such traditional literature as the novel, drama, and poetry, and to the arts of painting, sculpture and music.” The instability of modern identity becomes a key feature of the reactive nature of the essay. Robert Musil’s “The Man Without Qualities” speaks of the essay within the “increasingly unstable contemporary intellectual landscape,” placing the genre between a scholar’s and a writer’s search for truth. Reflected in Musil’s destabilized view of intellectual fields is the reconfiguration of identity after World War I. The “Foundations” of the collection shows how the vulnerability of subjectivity is paired with the aversion to fixed definition of the essay. Part 2, “The Essay Film throughout History,” speaks to the elusiveness of essays by rigorously taking up on the essay’s emphasis on the subjective and the conceptual. Starting with Hans Richter’s “A New Type of Documentary Film,” the essay is again reactive; Richter views the essay film as a reaction to illustrative documentary. Richter privileges intelligence as the material for the essay film, which is echoed in another piece of Part 2: “Bazin on Marker.” In the third part, “Contemporary Positions,” Alter and Corrigan trace the maturation of the essay film with writings from early 1990s to 2015. Essays in Part 3 make apparent that there is a catalogue of both essay films and theories. However, the catalogue is by no means a canon, as writers such as Phillip Lopate

Author Listing： Chae Park

Volume： 36

Pages： 81 - 83

DOI： 10.1080/10509208.2018.1450583

Language： English

Journal： Quarterly Review of Film and Video

Quarterly Review of Film and Video

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出版社：Taylor & Francis

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