Looking for the Essay: A Journey of Rediscovery
Looking for the Essay: A Journey of Rediscovery
Author(s): Fátima ChinitaSubject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Editorial, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai, Facultatea de Teatru si Televiziune
Keywords: essay; cinema; essay film; self-representation;
Summary/Abstract: How can what is not graspable in the first place turn into something different? Here is a conundrum, if ever there was one. Commentators on this subject usually agree upon the tentative nature of this definition and the probatory character of the activity (and the resulting artefacts). The present issue of Ekphrasis, on the essay film as a self-representational mode, is no exception to this exploratory rule. Its several contributions all undertake a personal search or evince a search undertaken by others. From the highly solipsistic or diaristic version of the essay film to the more socially-oriented one, there is one thing that all of these articles have in common: a metaphorical (sometimes even literal) voyage of discovery.
Journal: Ekphrasis. Images, Cinema, Theory, Media
- Issue Year: 26/2021
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 5-9
- Page Count: 5
- Language: English
