Timothy Corrigan is Professor Emeritus of English and Cinema Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His past publications include New German Film: The Displaced Image, A Cinema without Walls: Movies and Culture after Vietnam, and The Essay Film: From Montaigne, After Marker, winner of the 2012 Katherine Singer Kovács Award for the outstanding book in film and media studies.
"""In Describing Cinema, Timothy Corrigan argues that description is generative, a creative act that lays the groundwork for ensuing interpretations, explanations, and even memories of a work of art. This book provides a much needed and robust account of this central aesthetic concept, as well as a series of teachable chapters illustrating the extraordinary effects of the language we use to describe what we encounter on the screen before us."" * Kyle Stevens, editor of The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory *"