Table of Contents
Introduction: Between The Essay Film and Social Cinema
The Limits of Vococentrism: Chris Marker, Hans Richter and the Essay Film
Composing in Fragments: Music in the Essay Films of Resnais and Godard
Finding a Voice: Varda’s Early Travelogues
Scenes in a Library: Alain Resnais and Toute la mémoire du monde
Lines of Flight: Jean-Daniel Pollet, Méditerranée, and the Tel Quel Group
Contingency, Narrative, Fiction: Vogler, Brenkman, Poe
Coming Too Late: Freud, Belatedness, and Existential Trauma
Jacques Derrida: Biography in Action
Excess: Second Lives of Jacques Derrida