Futurist Cinema : : Studies on Italian Avant-garde Film /

Futurist Cinema : : Studies on Italian Avant-garde Film / / ed. by Rossella Catanese.

Futurism and early cinema shared a fascination with dynamic movement and speed, presenting both as harbingers of an emerging new way of life and new aesthetic criteria. And the Futurists quickly latched on to cinema as a device with great potential to manipulate our perceptions in order to create a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016-2018
MitwirkendeR:
Bertetto, Paolo,
Carpi, Giancarlo,
Castrillo, Carolina Fernández,
Catanese, Rossella,
Lista, Giovanni,
Lotti, Denis,
Maramai, Fernando,
Re, Lucia,
Saccoccio, Antonio,
Schrader, Sabine,
Seregni, Marcello,
Strauven, Wanda,
Uffreduzzi, Elisa,
Valente, Valentina,
Veneziano, Francesca,
HerausgeberIn:
Catanese, Rossella,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Film Culture in Transition
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.) :; 2 color plates, 5 halftones, 1 line drawing
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface: The Poly-expressive Symphony of Futurist Cinema
  • Section 1: Joyful Deformation Of The Universe
  • 1. Introduction. The Poetics of Futurist Cinema
  • 2. Speed and Dynamism. Futurism and the Soviet Cinematographic Avant-garde
  • 3. Futurism and Film Theories. Manifesto of Futurist Cinema and Theories in Italy in the 1910-1920s
  • 4. Film Aesthetics Without Films
  • 5. Marinetti's Tattilismo Revisited. Hand Travels, Tactile Screens, and Touch Cinema in the 21st Century
  • 6. Dance and Futurism in Italian Silent Cinema
  • 7. Futurism and cinema in the 1910s. A reinterpretation starting from McLuhan
  • 8. The Human in the Fetish of the Human. Cuteness in Futurist Cinema, Literature, and Visual Arts
  • Section 2: Daily Filmed Exercises Designed To Free Us From Logic
  • 9. Yambo on the moon of Verne and Méliès. From La colonia lunare to Un matrimonio interplanetario
  • 10. An Avant-Garde Heritage. Vita futurista
  • 11. Thaïs. A Different Challenge to the Stars
  • 12. Velocità, a Screenplay by F.T. Marinetti. From Futurist Simultaneity to Live Streaming Media
  • 13. Velocità/Vitesse. Filmed Dramas of Objects and 'avant-garde integrale'
  • 14. From Science to the Marvellous. The Illusion of Movement, Between Chronophotography and Contemporary Cinema
  • Section 3: Shop Windows Of Filmed Ideas, Events, Types, Objects
  • Chronology
  • Filmography
  • Index

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