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Visions of Avant-Garde Film : Polish Cinematic Experiments from Expressionism to Constructivism /

Warsaw- and London-based filmmakers Franciszka and Stefan Themerson are often recognized internationally as pioneers of the 1930s Polish avant-garde. Yet, from the turn of the century to the end of the 1920s, Poland's literary and art scenes were also producing a rich array of criticism and ear...

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Autor principal: Kuc, Kamila (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction
  • Protocinematic phase: the pioneers (1896-1918). "The cinematograph" and historical consciousness: actualities as the earliest experiments with film in the Polish territories
  • Discovering medium specificity: the first Polish claims for film as art
  • The first Polish experiment with film: Feliks Kuczkowski's animation in the context of the international avant-garde
  • Polish avant-garde movements and film (1919-1945). Karol Irzykowski's Tenth muse: animated film as the highest form of film art
  • The theoretical apparatus: Polish futurism and avant-garde film
  • Polish avant-garde films, discourses, and the concept of photogenie
  • Polish avant-garde film and constructivism
  • Conclusion.