Moving Forward, Looking Back: The European Avant-garde and the Invention of Film Culture, 1919-1939

Hagener, Malte

ISBN 10: 905356960X / ISBN 13: 9789053569603

Published by Amsterdam University Press, 2007

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--40% off Sale in Sept--Unmarked text. Title in the Film Culture in Transition. 371p. Measures 6.25x9.5 inches. Notes. Bibliography. Filmography. Index. Argues that a European perspective is the only way to understand the transnational Avant-Garde movement. Pioneers a new approach to the alternative cinema network that sustained the avant-garde, paying particular attention to the emergence of film culture as visible in screening clubs, film festivals, and archives.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Moving Forward, Looking Back: The European Avant-garde and the Invention of Film Culture, 1919-1939
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 905356960X
• ISBN 13: 9789053569603
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 32 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Film and Media Studies

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Synopsis

This first critical overview of the European film avant-garde ushers in a new approach and creates its own subject. Arguing that a European perspective is the only way to understand the film avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s, Hagener provides a much-needed summary of the theory and practice of the movement. This incisive study also pioneers a new approach to the alternative cinema network that sustained the avant-garde, paying particular attention to the emergence of screening clubs, film festivals, and archives.

About the Author

Malte Hagener is Professor of Media and Film Studies at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany. His publications include (with Thomas Elsaesser) Film Theory. An Introduction through the Senses (Routledge 2010, 2nd revised edition 2015). He is the co-editor of Handbuch Filmanalyse (Wiesbaden: Springer 2020; with Volker Pantenburg) and the editor of The Emergence of Film Culture. Knowledge Production, Institution Building and the Fate of the Avant-garde in Europe, 1919-1945. London: Berghahn 2014.