The City Symphony Phenomenon: Cinema, Art, and Urban Modernity Between the Wars

The 1920s and 1930s saw the rise of the city symphony, an experimental film form that presented the city as protagonist instead of mere decor. Combining experimental, documentary, and narrative practices, these films were marked by a high level of abstraction reminiscent of high-modernist experiment...

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1. Verfasser: Jacobs, Steven (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Milton Routledge 2018
Schriftenreihe:AFI Film Readers Ser
AFI Film Readers Ser
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Zusammenfassung:The 1920s and 1930s saw the rise of the city symphony, an experimental film form that presented the city as protagonist instead of mere decor. Combining experimental, documentary, and narrative practices, these films were marked by a high level of abstraction reminiscent of high-modernist experiments in painting and photography. Moreover, interwar city symphonies presented a highly fragmented, oftentimes kaleidoscopic sense of modern life, and they organized their urban-industrial images through rhythmic and associative montage that evoke musical structures. In this comprehensive volume, contributors consider the full80 film corpus, fromManhattaand Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Grosstadt to lesser-known cinematic explorations
Beschreibung:1 online resource (410 pages)
ISBN:9781317215578
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