{"product_id":"the-essay-film-after-fact-and-fiction-9780231178211","title":"The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction","description":"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. \u003ci\u003eThe Essay Film After Fact and Fiction \u003c\/i\u003elocates the genre's origins in early silent cinema and follows its transformation with the advent of sound, its legitimation in the postwar period, and its multifaceted development at the turn of the millennium. In addition to exploring the broader history of the essay film, Alter\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eaddresses the innovative ways contemporary artists such as Martha Rosler, Isaac Julien, Harun Farocki, John Akomfrah, and Hito Steyerl have taken up the essay film in their work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNora M. Alter is professor of comparative film and media studies in the School of Theater, Film, and Media Arts at Temple University. She is author of \u003ci\u003eVietnam Protest Theatre: The Television War on Stage\u003c\/i\u003e (1996); \u003ci\u003eProjecting History: German Nonfiction Cinema, 1967-2000\u003c\/i\u003e (2002); and \u003ci\u003eChris Marker \u003c\/i\u003e(2006). She is also coeditor with Timothy Corrigan of \u003ci\u003eEssays on the Essay Film\u003c\/i\u003e (Columbia, 2017).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50318586904850,"sku":"9780231178211","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5b190160-3467-413e-9d17-3f1e6f588265.jpg?v=1727558269","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-essay-film-after-fact-and-fiction-9780231178211","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}