Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the thinking form
  • Questions and answers: towards a dialogical understanding of the essay film
  • Essayistic filmmaking as a non-fictional practice: self-reflexivity and heteroglossia in Harun Farocki's Workers leaving the factory, José Luis Guerín's Train of shadows and Chris Marker's Sunless
  • Beyond the 'I': subjectivity and dialogical authorship in Chris Marker's Level 5
  • Unfinalizability, addressivity and tact: Harun Farocki's Videograms of a revolution
  • Interpellation, active spectatorship and the returned gaze: José Luis Guerín's In the city of Sylvia
  • Mapping the origins of an essayistic sensibility in five films
  • Conclusion.