Visions Of Avant-Garde Film: Polish Cinematic Experiments From Expressionism To Constructivism - 9780253023971

Cover -- VISIONS OF AVANT-GARDE FILM -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Protocinematic Phase: The Pioneers (1896-1918) -- 1 "The Cinematograph" and Historical Consciousness: Actualities as the Earliest Experiments with Film in the Polish Territories -- 2 Discovering Medium Specificity: The First Polish Claims for Film as Art -- 3 The Earliest Polish Experiment with Artist Film: Feliks Kuczkowski's Animation in the Context of the International Avant-Garde -- Part II. Polish Avant-Garde Movements and Film (1919-1945) -- 4 Karol Irzykowski's Tenth Muse: Animated Film as the Highest Form of Film Art -- 5 The Theoretical Apparatus: Polish Futurism and Avant-Garde Film -- 6 Polish Avant-Garde Films, Discourses, and the Concept of Photogénie -- 7 Polish Avant-Garde Film and Constructivism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

• | Author: Kamila Kuc
• | Publisher: Indiana University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 12, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 246 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Performing Arts
• | ISBN-10: 0253023971
• | ISBN-13: 9780253023971