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Walter Ruttmann and the Cinema of Multiplicity : Avant-Garde Film - Advertising - Modernity /

A key figure in early avant-garde cinema, Walter Ruttmann was a pioneer of experimental animation and the creative force behind one of the silent era's most celebrated montage films, Berlin: Symphony of a Great City. Yet even as he was making experimental films, Ruttmann had a day job. He worke...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cowan, Michael J., 1971- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : avant-garde, advertising and the managing of multiplicity
  • Absolute advertising : abstraction and figuration in Ruttmann's animated product advertisements (1922-1927)
  • The cross-section : images of the world and contingency management in Ruttmann's montage films of the late 1920s (1927-1929)
  • Statistics and biopolitics : conceiving the national body in Ruttmann's hygiene films (1930-1933)
  • "Überall Stahl" : forming the new nation in Ruttmann's steel and armament films (1934-1940)
  • Afterword : of good and bad objects.