A Modernist Cinema : Film Art from 1914 To 1941
KLEIN Scott W / MOSES Michael Valdez
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In A Modernist Cinema, sixteen distinguished scholars in the field of the New Modernist Studies explore the interrelationships among modernism, cinema, and modernity. Focusing on several culturally influential films from Europe, America, and Asia produced between 1914 and 1941, this collection of essays contends that cinema was always a modernist enterprise.
Examining the dialectical relationship between a modernist cinema and modernity itself, these essays reveal how the movies represented and altered our notions and practices of modern life, as well as how the so-called crises of modernity shaped the evolution of filmmaking. Attending to the technical achievements and forma ...
Publication date: 2022-02-02
Number of pages: 328
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subjects:
Non-fiction, Art/design/film, Film, TV & Radio, Films, Cinema, Published in the USA
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