Wednesday, May 3, 2006, 4:09:45 PM, one spoke:
M> My instinct is that work like that of Snow doesn't come under the
M> rubric of film essay, because even if it doesn't carry a
M> commentary, a film essay has a more discursive content than a film
M> like Wavelength.
I have difficulty with the idea of _Wavelength_ as essay because I'm
hard put to identify an *argument* unfolding over its duration.
I have no difficulty, however, seeing _So Is This_ as an essay, given
that it consists of nothing *but* its argument.
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Jim Flannery
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