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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hagener, Malte, 1971-
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: [Amsterdam] : Amsterdam University Press, ©2007.
Series:Film culture in transition.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Europe > History.
Experimental films > Europe > History and criticism.
Experimental films > Europe > History.
Films expérimentaux > Europe > Histoire.
Cinéma > Europe > Histoire.
Society and social sciences.
Society and culture: general.
The arts.
Film, TV and radio.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > General.
Experimental films.
Motion pictures.
Europe.
Experimentalfilm
Europa
Avant-garde.
Cultfilms.
Europa (geografie)
Culture and instituten
Culture and institutions
Film
Motion pictures
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.