Visions of Avant-Garde Film : Polish Cinematic Experiments from Expressionism to Constructivism / Kamila Kuc.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kuc, Kamila, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental films--Poland--History and criticism.

Experimental films.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana ; Indianapolis, [Indiana] : Indiana University Press, 2016.

Summary:

In this comprehensive and accessible study, Kamila Kuc draws on myriad undiscovered archival sources to tell the history of early Polish avant-garde movements--Symbolism, Expressionism, Futurism, and Constructivism--and to reveal their impact on later practices in art cinema.

Contents:

Introduction

Protocinematic phase: the pioneers (1896-1918). "The cinematograph" and historical consciousness: actualities as the earliest experiments with film in the Polish territories

Discovering medium specificity: the first Polish claims for film as art

The first Polish experiment with film: Feliks Kuczkowski's animation in the context of the international avant-garde

Polish avant-garde movements and film (1919-1945). Karol Irzykowski's Tenth muse: animated film as the highest form of film art

The theoretical apparatus: Polish futurism and avant-garde film

Polish avant-garde films, discourses, and the concept of photogenie

Polish avant-garde film and constructivism

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253024053

0253024056

OCLC:

966314924