EAN: 9783034307307

THINKING IMAGES - DAVID MONTERO KARTONIERT (TB)

The essay film - 'a form that thinks' - serves to create a self-reflexive space for
contemporary society by challenging expectations and demanding the creative involvement of the
spectator. Using film to provoke thought has never been more important than now  when
non-fiction films are gaining in popularity and playing a growing part in debates about culture
and politics. This timely publication argues that the appeal of the essay film lies primarily
in the dialogic engagement with the spectator and the richness of the intellectual and artistic
debate it stimulates. The book focuses on the work of three key European film directors
associated with the essay film: Chris Marker  Harun Farocki and José Luis Guerín. It provides a
detailed analysis of several films by each director  exploring the relationship between
dialogism and essayism in their work and placing this in the wider context of debates on the
cinematic essay as a genre. Central aspects of essayistic filmmaking are explored  including
its radical approach to knowledge  its distinctive patterns of subjectivity  its challenging of
the formal representation of reality  and its contribution to new understandings of
spectatorship. Written with clarity and perception  this volume offers new insights into the
rise of the non-fiction film and the essay film  in particular.

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