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The Emergence of Film Culture
eBook - Knowledge Production, Institution Building, and the Fate of the Avant-Garde in Europe, 1919-1945, Film Europa
ISBN/EAN: 9781782384243
Umbreit-Nr.: 2289260
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 390 S.
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 01.09.2014
Auflage: 1/2014
E-Book
Format: PDF
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <p> Between the two world wars, a distinct and vibrantfilm culture emerged in Europe. Film festivals and schools were established; film theory and history was written that took cinema seriously as an art form; and critical writing that created the film canon flourished. This scene was decidedly transnational and creative, overcoming traditional boundaries between theory and practice, and between national and linguistic borders. This new European film culture established film as a valid form of social expression, as an art form, and as a political force to be reckoned with. By examining the extraordinarily rich and creative uses of cinema in the interwar period, we can examine the roots of film culture as we know it today.</p>
- Kurztext
- Between the two world wars, a distinct and vibrant film culture emerged in Europe. Film festivals and schools were established; film theory and history was written that took cinema seriously as an art form; and critical writing that created the film canon flourished. This scene was decidedly transnational and creative, overcoming traditional boundaries between theory and practice, and between national and linguistic borders. This new European film culture established film as a valid form of social expression, as an art form, and as a political force to be reckoned with. By examining the extraordinarily rich and creative uses of cinema in the interwar period, we can examine the roots of film culture as we know it today.
- Autorenportrait
- <p><strong>Malte Hagener</strong>is Professor of Media Studies at Philipps Universität Marburg. He is the author of<em>Moving Forward, Looking Back: The European Avant-garde and the Invention of Film Culture, 1919-1939</em> (Amsterdam UP 2007) and with Thomas Elsaesser of<em>Film Theory: An Introduction through the Senses</em> (Routledge 2010).</p>