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).

• Acknowledgements, Introduction: A Tradition of Desiring, 35 Years On: Is the 'Text', Once Again, Unattainable?, To Attain the Text. But Which Text?, Compounding the Lyric Essay Film: Towards a Theory of Poetic Counter-Narrative, Every Love Story is a Ghost story: The Spectral Network of Laurie Anderson's Heart of Dog (2015)., The Non-Linear Treatment of Disquisition - Multiscreen Installation as Essay., Deborah Stratman's The Illinois Parables (2016): Intellectual Vagabond and Vagabond Matter, Rethinking the Human, Rethinking the Essay Film: The Ecocritical Work of The Pearl (2016), Montage Reloaded: from the Russian Avant-Garde to the Audio-Visual Essay, 'All I Have to Offer is Myself: the Filmmaker as Narrator, The Shudder of a Cinephiliac Idea? Videographic Film Studies Practice as Material Thinking., On Making Memory Posthumously: The Home Movie as Essay Film, Index