The essay film: from Montaigne, after Marker

Abstract

Introduction: Of Film and the Essayistic PART I: TOWARD THE ESSAY FILM Chapter One On Thoughts Occasioned by ...Montaigne to Marker Chapter Two Of the History of the Essay Film: from Vertov, to Varda PART II: ESSAYISTIC THINKING Chapter Three bout Portraying Expression: The Essay Film as Inter-view Chapter Four To Be Elsewhere: Cinematic Excursions as Essayistic Travel Chapter Five On Essayistic Diaries: Or, the Velocities of Non-Place Chapter Six Of the Currency of Events: The Essay Film as Editorial Chapter Seven About Refractive Cinema: When Films Interrogate Films Works Cited Index