Sunday, April 3, 2011

The Filming of Modern Life: European Avant-Garde Film of the 1920s



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In the 1920s, the European avant-garde embraced the cinema, experimenting with the medium in radical ways. Painters including Hans Richter and Fernand Leger as well as filmmakers belonging to such avant-garde movements as Dada and surrealism made some of the most enduring and fascinating films in the history of cinema. In The Filming of Modern Life, Malcolm Turvey examines five films from the avant-garde canon and the complex, sometimes contradictory, attitudes towa... More >>

The Filming of Modern Life: European Avant-Garde Film of the 1920s

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