World Cinema and the Essay Film

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).

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction; Brenda Hollweg and Igor KrstićPart One: Cinephilic Dialogues 1. The Essay Film and its Global Contexts: Conversations on Forms and Practices; Laura Rascaroli, Susana Barriga, Nguyen Trinh Thi and Bo Wang2. Essay Films about Film: The 'Filmed Correspondence' between José Luis Guerin and Jonas Mekas; Fernando CanetPart Two: Mobilities and Movements 3. Accented Essay Films: The Politics and Poetics of the Essay Film in the Age of Migration; Igor Krstić4. ‘Cottonopolis’: Experimenting with the Cinematographic, the Ethnographic and the Essayistic; Cathy Greenhalgh5. The World Essay Film and the Politics of Traceability; Giorgio Avezzù and Giuseppe FidottaPart Three: Laboratory of Memories6. Memory as a Motor of Images: The Essayistic Mode in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Variations of Uncle Boonmee; Christa Blümlinger7. ‘Time Turning into Space’: Innocence of Memories’ Prismatic Istanbul; Tim O’Farrell8. Lovers in Time: An Essay Film of Contested Memories; Thomas Elsaesser and Agnieszka PiotrowskaPart Four: Landscapes of Trauma9. No Man’s Zone: The Essay Film in the Aftermath of the Tsunami in Japan; Marco Bohr10. ‘Image-Writing’: The Essayistic in Mainland Chinese Non-fiction Cinema and Zhao Liang’s Behemoth; Tianqi　YuPart Five: Archival Effects11. Indigenous Australia and the Archive Effect: Frances Calvert’s Talking Broken as Essay Film; Peter Kilroy12. Between Autobiography, Personal Archive and Mourning: David Perlov’s Diary 1973–1983 in Tel Aviv; Ilana FeldmanAfterimages: a Photo-Essay 13. Strangely Real: Reassemblage from the Film Forgetting Vietnam; Trinh T. Minh-ha　Notes on the ContributorsIndex