Moving forward, looking back : the European avant-garde and the invention of film culture, 1919-1939 / Malte Hagener.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hagener, Malte, 1971-

Series:

Film culture in transition.

Film culture in transition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Europe--History.

Motion pictures.

Experimental films--Europe--History and criticism.

Experimental films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (374 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Amsterdam] : Amsterdam University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Moving Forward, Looking Back is the first concise and critical overview of the European film avant-garde of the 1920's and 1930's.

Contents:

Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Avant-garde Culture and Technological Transformations; Ch.1:Reframing the Historical Avant-garde - Media, Historiography and Method; Ch.2: The Dialectics of Self-Conception - Film Avant-garde and Industry Around 1930; Ch.3:Strategic Convergence and Functional Differentiation - The Film Societies and Ciné-Clubs of the 1920's and 30's; Ch.4:Mapping a Totality of Networks, Nodes and Flows - Discourses as Practice; Ch.5:Vanishing Point Soviet Union - Soviet Cinema and the West between Innovation and Repression

Ch.6: Melodies Across the Oceans - The Intersection of Documentary and Avant-garde Conclusion - Bridging the Gaps, Connecting the Dots; Notes; Bibliography; Filmography; Index of Names; Index of Film Titles; Index of Subjects

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-343) and indexes.

Filmography: p. [345]-352.

CC BY-NC-ND

ISBN:

9786611191177

9789048501670

9048501679

9781281191175

1281191175

9789048501663

9048501660

OCLC:

476250283

Publisher Number:

10.5117/9789053569610