
This Book Offers A Novel Understanding Of The Epistemological Strategies That Are Mobilized By The Essay Film, And Of Where And How Such Strategies Operate. Against The Backdrop Of Theodor W. Adorno's Discussion Of The Essay Form's Anachronistic, Anti-systematic And Disjunctive Mode Of Resistance, And Capitalizing On The Centrality Of The Interstice In Gilles Deleuze's Understanding Of The Cinema As Image Of Thought, The Book Discusses The Essay Film As Future Philosophy-as A Contrarian, Political Cinema Whose Argumentation Engages With Us In A Space Beyond The Verbal. A Diverse Range Of Case Studies Discloses How The Essay Film Can Be A Medium Of Thought On The Basis Of Its Dialectic Use Of Audiovisual Interstitiality. The Book Shows How The Essay Film's Disjunctive Method Comes To Be Realized At The Level Of Medium, Montage, Genre, Temporality, Sound, Narration, And Framing-all Of These Emerging As Interstitial Spaces Of Intelligence That Illustrate How Essayistic Meaning Can Be Sustained, Often In Contexts Of Political, Historical Or Cultural Extremity. The Essayistic Urge Is Not To Be Identified With A Fixed Generic Form, But Is Rather Situated Within Processes Of Filmic Thinking That Thrive In Gaps.-- Introduction: Openings: Thinking Cinema -- 1. Medium: Liquid Image, Fluid Cinema -- 2. Montage: Essayistic Thinking At The Juncture Of Images -- 3. Genre: The Speck Of Irony And The Ethnolandscape In Ruins -- 4. Temporality: The Palimpsestic Road And Diachronic Thinking -- 5. Sound: The Politics Of The Sonic Interstice And The Dissonance Of The Neutral -- 6. Narration: Epistolarity And Lyricism As Argumentation -- 7. Framing: Looking For An Object, Or The Essay Film As Theoretical Practice -- Conclusion: Reframing. Laura Rascaroli. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 191-199) And Index.
This book investigates how the essay film functions as a distinct mode of philosophical inquiry and political argumentation through its unique audiovisual strategies. Laura Rascaroli, a scholar in film and media studies, draws upon the theoretical frameworks of Theodor W. Adorno and Gilles Deleuze to analyze the essay film as a medium of thought. She argues that the genre operates through 'interstitiality'—the gaps and disjunctions within filmic structure—to create meaning that transcends traditional verbal logic.
What You Will Find
Scope Limits
Scholars and film theorists recognize this work as a rigorous contribution to the study of non-fiction and experimental cinema. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose, which requires a foundational understanding of continental philosophy and film theory to fully grasp the author's arguments.
Page Count:
224
Publication Date:
2017-01-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
ISBN-10:
0190238267
ISBN-13:
9780190238261
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