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

• Autore: Elder Bruce (R. Bruce)
• Pubblicazione: [Waterloo, Ont.] : , : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, , 2008; ©2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxxiii, 480 pages)
• Disciplina: 700
• Soggetto topico: Art and motion pictures; Avant-garde (Aesthetics); Modernism (Art)
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Harmony and dissent
• ISBN: 1-299-31307-8; 1-55458-086-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812008103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Film + media studies.