Beyond the Essay Film

Julia Vassilieva is Australian Research Council Research Fellow and lecturer in Film and Screen Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She is author of Narrative Psychology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and co-editor of After Taste: Cultural Value and the Moving Image (Routledge, 2013). Her publications have also appeared in Camera Obscura, Film-Philosophy, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, Screening the Past, Critical Arts, Kinovedcheskie Zapiski, Rouge, Lola, Senses of Cinema, History of Psychology, and a number of edited collections. Deane Williams is Associate Professor in Film and Screen Studies, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. From 2007-2017, he was editor of the journal Studies in Documentary Film, and his books include Australian Post-War Documentary Film: An Arc of Mirrors (2008), Michael Winterbottom (with Brian McFarlane, 2009), the three-volume Australian Film Theory and Criticism (co-edited with Noel King and Constantine Verevis, 2013-2018), and The Cinema of Sean Penn: In and Out of Place (2016).

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: A Tradition of Desiring
Julia Vassilieva and Deane Williams

35 Years On: Is the 'Text', Once Again, Unattainable?
Raymond Bellour (translated by Adrian Martin)

To Attain the Text. But Which Text?
Cristina ‰lvarez López & Adrian Martin

Compounding the Lyric Essay Film: Towards a Theory of Poetic Counter-Narrative
Laura Rascaroli

"Every Love Story is a Ghost story": The Spectral Network of Laurie Anderson's Heart of Dog (2015).
Deane Williams

The Non-Linear Treatment of Disquisition - Multiscreen Installation as Essay.
Ross Gibson

Deborah Stratman's The Illinois Parables (2016): Intellectual Vagabond and Vagabond Matter
Katrin Pesch

Rethinking the Human, Rethinking the Essay Film: The Ecocritical Work of The Pearl (2016)
Belinda Smaill

Montage Reloaded: from the Russian Avant-Garde to the Audio-Visual Essay
Julia Vassilieva

'All I Have to Offer is Myself": the Filmmaker as Narrator
Richard Misek

The Shudder of a Cinephiliac Idea? Videographic Film Studies Practice as Material Thinking.
Catherine Grant

On Making Memory Posthumously: The Home Movie as Essay Film
Thomas Elsaesser

Index