Timothy Corrigan

INVERSION
Corrigan, Timothy
INSTITUTION
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
SCOPUS ID
55897888300
E-MAIL
tcorriga@upenn.edu
COUNTRY
USA

Timothy Corrigan is a Professor Emeritus of English and Cinema Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His work in Cinema Studies has focused on contemporary international cinema and documentary film. He has published essays in Film Quarterly, Discourse, and Cinema Journal, among other collections, and is also an editor of the journal Adaptation and a former editorial board member of Cinema Journal. He is a member of graduate groups and an affiliated faculty member in the departments of English, History of Art, German, Women’s Studies, Comparative Literature, and Italian. In 2014 he received the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Award for Outstanding Pedagogical Achievement and the Ira H. Abrams Memorial Award for Distinguished Teaching in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. 

07/05/2023

Timothy Corrigan

The Essay Film: “On Thoughts Occasioned by…” Montaigne to Marker

  • ABSTRACT

    This paper is part of a larger study on the essay film. It aims to explore more exactly the “essayistic” in and through film, where the essayistic indicates a kind of encounter between the self and the public domain, an encounter that measures the limits and possibilities of each as a conceptual activity. Appearing within many different artistic and material forms besides the essay film, the essayistic acts out a performative presentation of self as a kind of self-negation in which narrative or experimental structures are subsumed within the process of thinking through a public experience

    SUBJECT
    CINEMA, GOTHIC, CANON
    CANONICAL AND NON-CANONICAL IN LITERATURE AND CINEMA
    KEYWORDS
    essay film
    Montaigne
    Marker
    personal expression
    public expe-rience
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