Walter Ruttmann and the Cinema of Multiplicity : : Avant-Garde Film - Advertising - Modernity / / Michael Cowan.
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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Film Culture in Transition
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (260 p.) :; 96 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- 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