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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Prif Awdur: Cowan, Michael (Awdur, http://id)
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press [2014]
Cyfres:Film culture in transition.
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv12fw6x7
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Avant-Garde, Advertising and the Managing of Multiplicity
  • 1. Absolute Advertising: Abstraction and Figuration in Ruttmann's Animated Product Advertisements (1922-1927)
  • 2. The Cross-Section: Images of the World and Contingency Management in Ruttmann's Montage Films of the Late 1920s (1927-1929)
  • 3. Statistics and Biopolitics: Conceiving the National Body in Ruttmann's Hygiene Films (1930-1933)
  • 4. "Überall Stahl": Forming the New Nation in Ruttmann's Steel and Armament Films (1934-1940)
  • Afterword: Of Good and Bad Objects
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Filmography
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Film Titles
  • Index of Subjects.