Futurist cinema: studies on Italian avant-garde film

"Futurism and early cinema shared a fascination with dynamic movement and speed, presenting both as harbingers of an emerging new way of life and new aesthetic criteria. And the Futurists quickly latched on to cinema as a device with great potential to manipulate our perceptions in order to cre...

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Other Authors: Catanese, Rossella (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press [2018]
Series:Film culture in transition
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Summary:"Futurism and early cinema shared a fascination with dynamic movement and speed, presenting both as harbingers of an emerging new way of life and new aesthetic criteria. And the Futurists quickly latched on to cinema as a device with great potential to manipulate our perceptions in order to create a new world. In the edited collection 'Futurist Cinema', Rossella Catanese explores that conjunction, bringing in avant-garde artists and their manifestos to show how painters and other artists turned to cinema as a model for overcoming the inherently static nature of painting in order to rethink it for a new era
Physical Description:258 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9789089647528