The Filming of Modern Life : European Avant-Garde Film of the 1920s.
The complex stance toward modernity taken by 1920s avant-garde cinema, as exemplified by five major films.
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
The MIT Press,
2013.
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| Series: | October Books.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Abstraction and Rhythm 21; 2 "Cinema pur" and Ballet mécanique; 3 Dada, Entr'acte, and Paris qui dort; 4 Surrealism and Un chien Andalou; 5 City Symphony and Man with a Movie Camera; 6 Film, Distraction, and Modernity; Notes; Index.