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World Cinema and the Essay Film
Transnational Perspectives on a Global Practice
Edited by Brenda Hollweg and Igor Krstic
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Book Presentation:
Explores the essay film as a global film practice
World Cinema and the Essay Film examines the ways in which essay film practices are deployed by non-Western filmmakers in specific local and national contexts, in an interconnected world. The book identifies the essay film as a political and ethical tool to reflect upon and potentially resist the multiple, often contradictory effects of globalization. With case studies of essayistic works by John Akomfrah, Nguyen Trinh Thi and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, amongst many others, and with a photo-essay by Trinh T. Min-ha and a discussion of Frances Calvert’s work, it expands current research on the essay film beyond canonical filmmakers and frameworks, and presents transnational perspectives on what is becoming a global film practice.
Key features
• Includes well-known and fresh voices of essay film practice from around the world
• Features examples from essay film practice as research
• Contains interviews with non-western filmmakers, in-depth case studies of global essay film practice and self-reflexive essays by scholars and film practitioners Includes case studies of works by:
• John Akomfrah
• Noël Burch and Allan Sekula
• Frances Calvert
• Toshi Fujiwara
• Grant Gee
• Amos Gitai
• Cathy Greenhalgh
• José Luis Guerín
• Jonas Mekas
• Angela Melitopoulos
• Luc Moullet
• Nguyen Trinh Thi
• David Perlov
• Agnieszka Piotrowska
• Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Zhao Liang
About the authors:
Brenda Hollweg is Research Fellow in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. A specialist in American literature and a scholar of the essay as literary and expanded cultural form, she worked on two major research collaborations that addressed questions of gender, genre and the essay as well as the aesthetic and affective dimensions of democratic participation. She has published on contemporary documentary and the cinematic essay and, in 2010, realized a 45min-long video essay, 'The Road to Voting'.
Igor Krstić is Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Stuttgart and in the Centre for Cultural and General Studies (ZAK) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). He has published on national, world and transnational cinema, documentary film and film philosophy. He is the author of Slums on Screen: World Cinema and the Planet of Slums (Edinburgh University Press, 2016).
See the publisher website: Edinburgh University Press
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