The Filming of Modern Life European Avant-Garde Film of The 1920s
| Author/creator | Turvey, Malcolm Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge : MIT Press |
| Description | 232 p. ill 09.000 x 07.000 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Series | October Bks. |
| Summary | Annotation In the 1920s, the European avant-garde embraced the cinema, experimenting with the medium in radical ways. Painters including Hans Richter and Fernand Léger as well as filmmakers belonging to such avant-garde movements as Dada and surrealism made some of the most enduring and fascinating films in the history of cinema. In The Filming of Modern Life, Malcolm Turvey examines five films from the avant-garde canon and the complex, sometimes contradictory, attitudes toward modernity they express: Rhythm 21 (Hans Richter, 1921), Ballet mécanique (Dudley Murphy and Fernand Léger, 1924), Entracte (Francis Picabia and René Clair, 1924), Un chien Andalou (Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel, 1929), and Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929). All exemplify major trends within European avant-garde cinema of the time, from abstract animation to "cinéma pur." All five films embrace and resist, in their own ways, different aspects of modernity. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780262295307 |
| ISBN | 026229530X (E-Book) No longer our product |
| Standard identifier# | 9780262295307 |
| Stock number | 8217 00015994 |
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