Filming of Modern Life European Avant-Garde Film of The 1920s

Name: Filming of Modern Life European Avant-Garde Film of The 1920s
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ISBN: 9780262525114

ISBN-10: 0262525119

ISBN-13: 9780262525114

Edition: 2011

Authors: Malcolm Turvey

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In the 1920s, the European avant-garde embraced the cinema, experimenting with themedium in radical ways. Painters including Hans Richter and Fernand Léger as well as filmmakersbelonging to such avant-garde movements as Dada and surrealism made some of the most enduring andfascinating films in the history of cinema. In The Filming of Modern Life,Malcolm Turvey examines five films from the avant-garde canon and the complex, sometimescontradictory, attitudes toward modernity they express: Rhythm 21 (Hans Richter, 1921),Ballet mécanique (Dudley Murphy and Fernand Léger, 1924),Entr'acte (Francis Picabia and René Clair, 1924), Un chienAndalou (Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel, 1929), and Man with a…

Book details

List price: $20.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 9/13/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Malcolm Turvey is Professor of Film History at Sarah Lawrence College and an editor of October. He is the author of Doubting Vision: Film and the Revelationist Tradition.