Futurist cinema : studies on Italian avant-garde film / edited by Rossella Catanese.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Catanese, Rossella, editor.

Series:

Film culture in transition.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Italy--History.

Motion pictures.

Futurism (Art)--Italy--History.

Futurism (Art).

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Italy--History.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Futurism and early cinema shared a fascination with dynamic movement and speed, presenting both as harbingers of an emerging new way of life and new aesthetic criteria. And the Futurists quickly latched on to cinema as a device with great potential to manipulate our perceptions in order to create a new world. In the edited collection Futurist Cinema, Rossella Catanese explores that conjunction, bringing in avant-garde artists and their manifestos to show how painters and other artists turned to cinema as a model for overcoming the inherently static nature of painting in order to rethink it for a new era.

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface: The Poly-expressive Symphony of Futurist Cinema / Rossella Catanese

Section 1: Joyful Deformation Of The Universe

1. Introduction: The Poetics of Futurist Cinema / Giovanni Lista

2. Speed and Dynamism: Futurism and the Soviet Cinematographic Avant-garde / Paolo Bertetto

3. Futurism and Film Theories: Manifesto of Futurist Cinema and Theories in Italy in the 1910-1920s / Valentina Valente

4. Film Aesthetics Without Films / Sabine Schrader

5. Marinetti's Tattilismo Revisited: Hand Travels, Tactile Screens, and Touch Cinema in the 21st Century / Wanda Strauven

6. Dance and Futurism in Italian Silent Cinema / Elisa Uffreduzzi

7. Futurism and cinema in the 1910s: A reinterpretation starting from McLuhan / Antonio Saccoccio

8. The Human in the Fetish of the Human: Cuteness in Futurist Cinema, Literature, and Visual Arts / Giancarlo Carpi

Section 2: Daily Filmed Exercises Designed To Free Us From Logic

9. Yambo on the moon of Verne and Méliès: From La colonia lunare to Un matrimonio interplanetario / Denis Lotti

10. An Avant-Garde Heritage: 'Vita futurista' / Rossella Catanese

11. Thaïs: A Different Challenge to the Stars / Lucia Re

12. Velocità, a Screenplay by F.T. Marinetti: From Futurist Simultaneity to Live Streaming Media / Carolina Fernández Castrillo

13. Velocità/Vitesse: Filmed Dramas of Objects and 'avant-garde integrale' / Rossella Catanese

14. From Science to the Marvellous: The Illusion of Movement, Between Chronophotography and Contemporary Cinema / Francesca Veneziano

Section 3: Shop Windows Of Filmed Ideas, Events, Types, Objects

Chronology / Fernando Maramai

Filmography / Marcello Seregni

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Dec 2020).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed January 18, 2022)

ISBN:

1-003-69627-9

1-04-078708-8

90-485-6136-1

90-485-2523-3

9781003696278

OCLC:

1018944882