| Description |
1 online resource |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Protocinematic phase: the pioneers (1896-1918). "The cinematograph" and historical consciousness: actualities as the earliest experiments with film in the Polish territories -- Discovering medium specificity: the first Polish claims for film as art -- The first Polish experiment with film: Feliks Kuczkowski's animation in the context of the international avant-garde -- Polish avant-garde movements and film (1919-1945). Karol Irzykowski's Tenth muse: animated film as the highest form of film art -- The theoretical apparatus: Polish futurism and avant-garde film -- Polish avant-garde films, discourses, and the concept of photogenie -- Polish avant-garde film and constructivism -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Experimental films -- Poland -- History and criticism.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kuc, Kamila author. Visions of avant-garde film. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2016 9780253023971 (DLC) 2016040997 |
| ISBN |
9780253024053 (electronic bk.) |
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0253024056 (electronic bk.) |
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9780253023971 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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