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A Modernist Cinema - Film Art from 1914 to 1941 (Paperback)
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A Modernist Cinema - Film Art from 1914 to 1941 (Paperback)
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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 formal qualities of the works of several
prominent directors - Giovanni Pastrone, D. W. Griffith, Sergei
Eisenstein, Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, F. W. Murnau, Carl
Theodore Dreyer, Dziga Vertov, Luis Bunuel, Yasujiro Ozu, John
Ford, Jean Renoir, Charlie Chaplin, Leni Riefenstahl, and Orson
Welles - these essays investigate several interrelated topics: how
a modernist cinema represented and intervened in the political and
social struggles of the era; the ambivalent relationship between
cinema and the other modernist arts; the controversial
interconnection between modern technology and the new art of
filmmaking; the significance of representing the mobile human body
in a new medium; the gendered history of modernity; and the
transformative effects of cinema on modern conceptions of
temporality, spatial relations, and political geography.
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