A modernist cinema : film art from 1914 to 1941 / edited by Scott W. Klein and Michael Valdez Moses.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Klein, Scott W, editor.

Moses, Michael Valdez, 1957- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

History.

Motion pictures--Aesthetics.

Modernism (Aesthetics).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"In A Modernist Cinema, edited by Scott W. Klein and Michael Valdez Moses, sixteen distinguished scholars in the field of the New Modernist Studies explore the interrelationships among modernism, cinema, and modernity. Focusing on several culturally influential films from Europe, America, and Asia produced between 1914 and 1941, this collection of essays contends that cinema was always a modernist enterprise. Examining the dialectical relationship between a modernist cinema and modernity itself, these essays reveal how the movies represented and altered our notions and practices of modern life, as well as how the so-called crises of modernity shaped the evolution of filmmaking. Attending to the technical achievements and formal qualities of the works of several prominent directors-Giovanni Pastrone, D. W. Griffith, Sergei Eisenstein, Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, F. W. Murnau, Carl Theodore Dreyer, Dziga Vertov, Luis Buñuel, Yasujiro Ozu, John Ford, Jean Renoir, Charlie Chaplin, Leni Riefenstahl, and Orson Welles-these essays investigate several interrelated topics: how a modernist cinema represented and intervened in the political and social struggles of the era; the ambivalent relationship between cinema and the other modernist arts; the controversial interconnection between modern technology and the new art; the significance of representing the mobile human body in a new medium; the gendered history of modernity; and the transformative effects of cinema on modern conceptions of temporality, spatial relations, and political geography. Contributors: Richard Begam, Maurizia Bascagli, Enda Duffy, Laura Frost, Andrzej Gasiorek, Scott W. Klein, Douglas Mao, Laura Marcus, Jesse Matz, Tyrus Miller, Michael Valdez Moses, Michael North, Elizabeth Otto, Carrie J. Preston, Lisa Siraganian, Michael Wood"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Giovanni Pastrone's Cabiria, Gesture, Modernism / Maurizia Boscagli

2. D.W. Griffith's Intolerance and the Ever-Present Now / Michael North

3. Sergei Eisenstein's Collage: Filming Montage in Museums at Night / Lisa Siraganian

4. From Automaton to Autonomy: Mechanical Reproduction in Fritz Lang's Metropolis / Richard Begam

5. "Suspense Is like a Woman": Sex and Style in Alfred Hitchcock's Pleasure Garden and The Lodger / Laura Frost

6. F. W. Murnau's Sunrise: Between Two Worlds / Laura Marcus

7. "A Language Worth the Trouble of Learning"? Carl Theodor Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc / Andrzej Gasiorek

8. Intervals of Transition: Dziga Vertov's The Man with a Movie Camera / Tyrus Miller

9. Luis Bunuel, Surrealism, and the Politics of Disorder / Michael Wood

10. Ozu Yasujiro'sd Story of Floating Weeds and the Art of Being Behind / Carrie J. Preston

11. "That Saves Them the Blessings of Civilization": John Ford's Stagecoach, the West, and American Vernacular Modernism / Michael Valdez Moses

12. "Tout le monde a ses raisons": The Problem of Impressionist Commitment in Jean Renoir's La Regie dujeu / Jesse Matz

13. "You Must Speak": Silence, Scale, and Power in Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator / Scott W. Klein

14. Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi Neoclassicism: Olympio (1938) / Elizabeth Otto

15. On Auratic and Sentimental Objects: High and Low Modernism in Orson Welles's Citizen Kane / Douglas Mao.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: A modernist cinema

ISBN:

9780199379460

0199379467

9780199379453

0199379459

OCLC:

1242913035

Publisher Number:

99989174014