Visions Of Avant-Garde Film: Polish Cinematic Experiments From Expressionism To Constructivism - 9780253024022

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 early experiments with the moving image that set the stage for later developments in the avant-garde. In this comprehensive and accessible study, Kamila Kuc draws on myriad undiscovered archival sources to tell the history of early Polish avant-garde movements--Symbolism, Expressionism, Futurism, and Constructivism--and to reveal their impact on later practices in art cinema.

• | Author: Kamila Kuc
• | Publisher: Indiana University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 12, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 246 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Performing Arts
• | ISBN-10: 0253024021
• | ISBN-13: 9780253024022