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Moving forward, looking back : the European avant-garde and the invention of film culture, 1919-1939 / Malte Hagener

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Hagener, Malte, 1971-
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[Amsterdam] : Amsterdam University Press, [2007]
Copyright Date
©2007
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1 online resource (369 pages).
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English.
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Open Access Unrestricted online access
Contents
Introduction: avant-garde culture and technological transformations -- Reframing the historical avant-garde -- media, historiography and method -- The dialectics of self-conception -- film avant-garde and industry around 1930 -- Strategic convergence and functional differentiation -- the film societies and ciné-clubs of the 1920s and 30s -- Mapping a totality of networks, nodes and flows -- discourses as practice -- Vanishing point Soviet Union -- Soviet cinema and the West between innovation and repression -- Melodies across the oceans -- the intersection of documentary and avant-garde -- Conclusion -- bridging the gaps, connecting the dots.
Summary
"Moving Forward, Looking Back : The European Avant-Garde and the Invention of Film Culture, 1913-1339 is the first concise and critical overview of this crucial period in film history. Arguing that the avant-garde should be understood as a transnational network of European scope, this book ushers in a new approach to the study of artistic movements. Such ephemeral activities as alternative screening practice, teaching, publishing, film collecting, exhibitions and film festivals in fact stand at the beginning of what came to be known as film culture ever since. The book thus argues for the lasting and continuing impact that the avant-garde has had on the cinema in general, and not just on film form and film style."--Jacket.
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9789048501663 (electronic bk.)
9048501660 (electronic bk.)
9789048501670 (electronic bk.)
9048501679 (electronic bk.)
1281191175
9781281191175
9789053569610 (hbk.)
9053569618 (hbk.)
9789053569603 (pbk.)
905356960X (pbk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-343) and indexes.
Filmography: pages 345-352.
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