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Moving Forward, Looking Back: The European Avant-garde and the Invention of Film Culture, 1919-1939 (Amsterdam University Press - Film Culture in Transition)

By Malte Hagener

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
9053569618, 905356960X, 9789053569610, 9789048501663, 9789053569603
Open Library ID
OL12808380M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1536432 bytes)
Pages
352\374
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book, the first full critical overview of the film avant-garde, ushers in a new approach—and in the process creates its own subject. While many books have studied particular aspects of the European film avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s, Moving Forward, Looking Back provides a much-needed summary of the theory and practice of the movement, while also emphasizing aspects of the period that have been overlooked. Arguing that a European perspective is the only way to understand the transnational movement, the book also pioneers a new approach to the alternative cinema network that sustained the avant-garde, paying particular attention to the emergence of film culture as visible in screening clubs, film festivals, and archives. It will be essential to anyone interested in the influential movement and the film culture it created.

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