{"title":"‘Every love story is a ghost story’ : The Spectral Network of Laurie Anderson’s Heart of a Dog (2015)","authors":"Deane Williams","doi":"10.5117/9789463728706_ch04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463728706_ch04","url":null,"abstract":"While it has been described as ‘a paean to a canine friend’ and ‘a meditation\u0000 on love and loss’, Laurie Anderson’s Heart of a Dog (2016) can also\u0000 be understood as a network of ghost stories. Drawing on Anderson’s\u0000 idiosyncratic multimedia technique (foregrounding technology) and\u0000 conceptualizing of the future, this chapter explores the ways in which the\u0000 figures of 9/11, Lou Reed, David Foster Wallace, Gordon Matta-Clark, and\u0000 the Bardo course through Heart of a Dog. Exploring the implications of the\u0000 juxtaposition of these themes and Anderson’s oeuvre, Williams positions\u0000 the film in relation to a confluence of network theory and hauntology as\u0000 a particular rendering of 21st-century subjectivity.","PeriodicalId":162972,"journal":{"name":"Beyond the Essay Film","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114264987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rethinking the Human, Rethinking the Essay Film : The Ecocritical Work of The Pearl Button","authors":"Belinda Smaill","doi":"10.5117/9789463728706_ch07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463728706_ch07","url":null,"abstract":"In the essayistic mode, the performance of selfhood frequently questions\u0000 the logic of subjectivity and its relation with the world. Taking up this\u0000 core property of the essay film, this chapter explores its potential to\u0000 further ecocritical approaches in film studies. It asks how grappling with\u0000 non-human themes and aesthetics might further complicate and rethink\u0000 not just the sovereign subject in documentary, but the status of the human\u0000 more fundamentally. These questions are taken up through a close reading\u0000 of Patricio Guzmán’s The Pearl Button (El botón de nácar, Chile, 2015), a film\u0000 that examines post-dictatorship Chile by criss-crossing multiple spheres\u0000 of interest, including the events of the military dictatorship, cultures and\u0000 the impact of colonialism, astronomy, Chilean natural geography, with\u0000 water as structuring concern across all.","PeriodicalId":162972,"journal":{"name":"Beyond the Essay Film","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124510360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Shudder of a Cinephiliac Idea?","authors":"Catherine A. Grant","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv12pntxp.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv12pntxp.14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":162972,"journal":{"name":"Beyond the Essay Film","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114671873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Home Movie as Essay Film:","authors":"T. Elsaesser","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv12pntxp.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv12pntxp.15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":162972,"journal":{"name":"Beyond the Essay Film","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134438164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"To Attain the Text.","authors":"Cristina A. López, A. Martin","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv12pntxp.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv12pntxp.6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":162972,"journal":{"name":"Beyond the Essay Film","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134481182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"To Attain the Text. But Which Text?","authors":"Cristina A. López, A. Martin","doi":"10.1017/9789048543922.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048543922.003","url":null,"abstract":"Raymond Bellour’s 1975 essay ‘The Unattainable Text’ has, in recent years,\u0000 enjoyed new life as a founding text of the loose, global movement devoted\u0000 to the making and theorizing of audiovisual essays. Where the film-text\u0000 was once unattainable to scholars and artists, now we can get our hands\u0000 on it thanks to the various technological waves that were once only a\u0000 distant dream. However, there are challenges in Bellour’s text that are\u0000 conveniently overlooked in its optimistic interpretation; in particular,\u0000 the multiple meanings attached to the word text itself. Attaining this\u0000 ‘text’ is not a straightforward procedure of downloading and re-editing\u0000 digital files. What more is at stake that we need to make explicit today\u0000 in discussing the audiovisual essay?","PeriodicalId":162972,"journal":{"name":"Beyond the Essay Film","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116887679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘All I have to offer is myself’:","authors":"Richard Misek","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv12pntxp.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv12pntxp.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":162972,"journal":{"name":"Beyond the Essay Film","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114388729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}