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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812008103321

Autore

Elder Bruce (R. Bruce)

Titolo

Harmony and dissent : film and avant-garde art movements in the early twentieth century / / R. Bruce Elder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Waterloo, Ont.] : , : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, , 2008

©2008

ISBN

1-299-31307-8

1-55458-086-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxxiii, 480 pages)

Collana

Film and media studies series

Disciplina

700

Soggetti

Art and motion pictures

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)

Modernism (Art)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; PART 1 MODERNISM AND THE ABSOLUTE FILM: THE OVERCOMING OF REPRESENTATION; PART 2 MODERNISM AND REVOLUTION: CONSTRUCTIVISM BETWEEN MARXISM AND THEOLOGY; Concluding Unscientific Postscript; Appendix: Viking Eggeling's Diagonal-Symphonie: An Analysis; Index

Sommario/riassunto

R. Bruce Elder argues that the authors of many of the manifestoes that announced in such lively ways the appearance of yet another artistic movement shared a common aspiration: they proposed to reformulate the visual, literary, and performing arts so that they might take on attributes of the cinema. The cinema, Elder argues, became, in the early decades of the twentieth century, a pivotal artistic force around which a remarkable variety and number of aesthetic forms took shape. To demonstrate this, Elder begins with a wide-ranging discussion that opens up some broad topics concern