Harmony and dissent : film and avant-garde art movements in the early twentieth century / R. Bruce Elder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elder, Bruce (R. Bruce)

Series:

Film + media studies.

Film and media studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and motion pictures.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics).

Modernism (Art).

Eisenstein, Sergei, 1898-1948--Criticism and interpretation.

Eisenstein, Sergei.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxiii, 480 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Harmony + dissent

Place of Publication:

[Waterloo, Ont.] : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

R. Bruce Elder argues that the authors of many of the manifestoes that announced in such lively ways the appearance of yet another artistic movement shared a common aspiration: they proposed to reformulate the visual, literary, and performing arts so that they might take on attributes of the cinema. The cinema, Elder argues, became, in the early decades of the twentieth century, a pivotal artistic force around which a remarkable variety and number of aesthetic forms took shape. To demonstrate this, Elder begins with a wide-ranging discussion that opens up some broad topics concern

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; PART 1 MODERNISM AND THE ABSOLUTE FILM: THE OVERCOMING OF REPRESENTATION; PART 2 MODERNISM AND REVOLUTION: CONSTRUCTIVISM BETWEEN MARXISM AND THEOLOGY; Concluding Unscientific Postscript; Appendix: Viking Eggeling's Diagonal-Symphonie: An Analysis; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781299313071

1299313078

9781554580866

1554580862

OCLC:

753479493