Introduction / Nora M. Alter and Timothy Corrigan -- Part I. Foundations. "On the nature and form of the essay" / Georg Lukacs -- The man without qualities / Robert Musil -- "On the essay and its prose" / Max Bense -- "The essay as form" / Theodor W. Adorno -- "Preface to The collected essays of Aldous Huxley" / Aldous Huxley -- Part II. The essay film through history. "The film essay : a new type of documentary film" / Hans Richter -- "The future of cinema" / Alexandre Astruc -- "Bazin on marker" / Andre Bazin -- Part III. Contemporary positions. "In search of the centaur : the essay-film" / Phillip Lopate -- "The political im/perceptible in the essay film : Farocki's Images of the world and the inscription of war" / Nora M. Alter -- "Essay questions" / Paul Arthur -- "The electronic essay" / Michael Renov -- "The essay film : problems, definitions, textual commitments" / Laura Rascaroli -- "Of the history of the essay film : Vertov to Varda" / Timothy Corrigan -- "The cinema and the essay as a way of thinking" / Raymond Bellour -- "The essay film : from film festival favorite to flexible commodity form?" / Thomas Elsaesser -- Part IV. Filmmakers on the essayistic. "Performing borders : transnational video" / Ursula Biemann -- "Proposal for a tussle" / Jean-Pierre Gorin -- "The essay as conformism? : some notes on global image economies" / Hito Steyerl -- "On writing the film essay" / Lynne Sachs -- "Tramp steamer" / Ross McElwee -- "The ABCs of the film essay" / Harun Farocki and Christa BluÂmlinger -- "Riddles as essay film" / Laura Mulvey -- "Certain obliquenesses" / Renee Green -- "Essay documentary : the disembodied narrator and an unclaimed image that floats through space and time" / -- Rea Tajiri -- "From Ten thousand waves to Lina Bo Bardi, via Kapital" / Isaac Julien.
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