The Emergence of Film Culture

Knowledge Production, Institution Building, and the Fate of the Avant-Garde in Europe, 1919-1945
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-354-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 390 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 569 g

Reihe: Film Europa

Between the two world wars, a distinct and vibrant film culture emerged in Europe. Film festivals and schools were established; film theory and history was written that took cinema seriously as an art form; and critical writing that created the film canon flourished. This scene was decidedly transnational and creative, overcoming traditional boundaries between theory and practice, and between national and linguistic borders. This new European film culture established film as a valid form of social expression, as an art form, and as a political force to be reckoned with. By examining the extraordinarily rich and creative uses of cinema in the interwar period, we can examine the roots of film culture as we know it today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hagener, Malte

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Emergence of Film Culture

Malte Hagener

PART I: FORMATIONS OF KNOWLEDGE

Chapter 1. Policing Race. Postcolonial Critique, Censorship and Regulatory Responses to the Cinema in Weimar Film Culture

Tobias Nagl

Chapter 2. The Visible Woman in and against Béla Balázs

Erica Carter

Chapter 3. Encounters in Darkened Rooms: Alternative Programming of the Dutch Filmliga, 1927-1931

Tom Gunning

Chapter 4. When Was Soviet Cinema Born? The Institututionalization of Soviet Film Studies and the Problems of Periodization

Natalya Ryabchikova

PART II: NETWORKS OF EXCHANGE

Chapter 5. Eastern Avatars. Russian Influence on European Avant-gardes

Ian Christie

Chapter 6. Early Yugoslav ciné-amateurism: Cinéphilia and the institutionalization of film culture in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia during the interwar period

Greg DeCuir, Jr.

Chapter 7. Soviet-Italian Cinematic Exchanges. Transnational Film Education in the 1930s

Masha Salazkina

Chapter 8. The Avant-garde, Education and Marketing: The Making of Non-Theatrical Film Culture in Interwar Switzerland

Yvonne Zimmermann

PART III: EMERGENCE OF INSTITUTIONS 

Chapter 9. Interwar Film Culture in Sweden. Avant-Garde Transactions in the Emergent Welfare State

Lars Gustaf Andersson

Chapter 10. Building the Institution. Luigi Chiarini and Italian Film Culture in the 1930s

Francesco Pitassio and Simone Venturini

Chapter 11. A New Art for a New Society? The Emergence and Development of Film Schools in Europe

Duncan Petrie

Chapter 12. Institutions of Film Culture. Festivals and Archives as Network Nodes

Malte Hagener

Chapter 13. The German Reichsfilmarchiv in an International Context

Rolf Aurich

Notes on Contributors

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hagener, Malte
Malte Hagener is Professor of Media Studies at Philipps Universität Marburg. He is the author of Moving Forward, Looking Back: The European Avant-garde and the Invention of Film Culture, 1919-1939 (Amsterdam UP 2007) and with Thomas Elsaesser of Film Theory: An Introduction through the Senses (Routledge 2010).