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The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction
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Nora M. Alter is professor of comparative film and media studies in the School of Theater, Film, and Media Arts at Temple University. She is author of Vietnam Protest Theatre: The Television War on Stage (1996); Projecting History: German Nonfiction Cinema, 1967 - 2000 (2002); and Chris Marker (2006) and coeditor (with Timothy Corrigan) of Essays on the Essay Film (Columbia, 2017).
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Beginnings2. Speaking Essays or Interruptions3. The Essay Film as Archive and Repository of Memories4. The Essay Film as the Fourth Estate5. The Artist Essay: Expanding the Field and the Turn to Video6. New Migrations: Third Cinema and the Essay Film7. Beyond the Cinematic Screen: Installations and the InternetNotesBibliographyIndex
Nora M. Alter argues that the essay film is a hybrid genre that fuses three major categories of film: feature, art, and documentary. Much like the written essay, its literary predecessor, the essay film draws on a variety of forms and approaches, fundamentally altering the shape of cinema. Alter traces the essay film's origins to early silent cinema, charting the genre's evolution with the advent of sound, its emergence as a recognized category of film in the postwar period, and the ways the genre developed in the later twentieth century. In addition to exploring the broader history of the essay film, Alter discusses the work of artists including Robert Smithson, Martha Rosler, Isaac Julien, John Akomfrah, Harun Farocki, and Hito Steyerl.