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The emergence of film culture : knowledge production, institution building, and the fate of the avant-garde in Europe, 1919-1945 / edited by Malte Hagener.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Film Europa
- Film Europa: German Cinema in an International Context
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Experimental films--Europe--History and criticism.
- Experimental films.
- Motion pictures--Europe--History--20th century.
- Motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (390 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Between the two world wars, a distinct and vibrant film culture emerged in Europe. Film festivals and schools were established; film theory and history was written that took cinema seriously as an art form; and critical writing that created the film canon flourished. This scene was decidedly transnational and creative, overcoming traditional boundaries between theory and practice, and between national and linguistic borders. This new European film culture established film as a valid form of social expression, as an art form, and as a political force to be reckoned with. By examining the extra
- Contents:
- Title page; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Formations of Knowledge ; Chapter 1 Policing Race: ; Chapter 2 The Visible Woman in and against Béla Balázs ; Chapter 3 Encounters in Darkened Rooms ; Chapter 4 When Was Soviet Cinema Born? The Institutionalization of Soviet Film Studies and the Problems of Periodization; Part II Networks of Exchange ; Chapter 5 Eastern Avatars ; Chapter 6 Early Yugoslav Ciné-amateurism ; Chapter 7 Soviet-Italian Cinematic Exchanges ; Chapter 8 The Avant-Garde, Education and Marketing ; Part III Emergence of Institutions
- Chapter 9 Interwar Film Culture in Sweden Chapter 10 Building the Institution ; Chapter 11 A New Art for a New Society? The Emergence and Development of Film Schools in Europe ; Chapter 12 Institutions of Film Culture ; Chapter 13 The German Reich Film Archive in an International Context ; Notes on Contributors ; Select Bibliography ; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781785333545
- 1785333542
- 9781782384243
- 1782384243
- OCLC:
- 889674396
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