The Essay Film: Problems, Definitions, Textual Commitments

Framework | October 1, 2008| | Copyright

The label "essay film" is encountered with ever-increasing frequency in both film reviews and scholarly writings on the cinema, owing to the recent proliferation of unorthodox, personal, reflexive "new" documentaries. In an article dedicated to the phenomenon that he defines as the "recent onslaught of essay films," Paul Arthur proposes: "Galvanized by the intersection of personal, subjective and social history, the essay has emerged as the leading nonfiction form for both intellectual and artistic innovation."1 Although widely used, the category is under-theorized, even more so than other ...

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