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A modernist cinema : film art from 1914 to 1941 / edited by Scott W. Klein and Michael Valdez Moses.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Modernism (Aesthetics).
- Motion pictures--History--20th century.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Aesthetics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (332 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- Distinguished scholars in the field of the New Modernist Studies explore the interrelationships among cinema, modernism across the arts, and modernity in the period 1914 to 1941. Each of the 15 chapters focuses on at least one influential film by a major director from Europe, America, or Asia.
- Contents:
- Cover
- A Modernist Cinema
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Giovanni Pastrone's Cabiria, Gesture, Modernism
- 2. D. W. Griffith's Intolerance and the Ever-Present Now
- 3. Sergei Eisenstein's Collage: Filming Montage in Museums at Night
- 4. From Automaton to Autonomy: Mechanical Reproduction in Fritz Lang's Metropolis
- 5. "Suspense Is like a Woman": Sex and Style in Alfred Hitchcock's Pleasure Garden and The Lodger
- 6. F. W. Murnau's Sunrise: Between Two Worlds
- 7. "A Language Worth the Trouble of Learning"? Carl Theodor Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc
- 8. Intervals of Transition: Dziga Vertov's The Man with a Movie Camera
- 9. Luis Buñuel, Surrealism, and the Politics of Disorder
- 10. Ozu Yasujirō's A Story of Floating Weeds and the Art of Being Behind
- 11. "That Saves Them the Blessings of Civilization": John Ford's Stagecoach, the West, and American Vernacular Modernism
- 12. "Tout le monde a ses raisons": The Problem of Impressionist Commitment in Jean Renoir's La Règle du jeu
- 13. "You Must Speak": Silence, Scale, and Power in Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator
- 14. Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi Neoclassicism: Olympia (1938)
- 15. On Auratic and Sentimental Objects: High and Low Modernism in Orson Welles's Citizen Kane
- List of Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-091213-8
- 0-19-937948-3
- 0-19-937947-5
- OCLC:
- 1243907846
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