The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction

by Nora M Alter and Nora M. Alter

Book Overview

Nora M. Alter reveals the essay film to be a hybrid genre that fuses the categories of feature, art, and documentary film. Like its literary predecessor, the essay film draws on a variety of forms and approaches; in the process, it fundamentally alters the shape of cinema. The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction locates the genre's origins in early silent cinema and follows its transformation with the advent of sound, its legitimation in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231178212
• ISBN13: 9780231178211
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"