Jacobs / Hielscher / Kinik Cinema, Avant-garde, and Urban Modernity

The City Symphony Phenomenon (1920-1940)
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-317-21558-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten

Reihe: AFI Film Readers

The 1920s and 1930s saw the rise of the city symphony, an experimental film form that presented the city as protagonist instead of mere decor. Combining experimental, documentary, and narrative practices, these films were marked by a high level of abstraction reminiscent of high-modernist experiments in painting and photography. Moreover, interwar city symphonies presented a highly fragmented, oftentimes kaleidoscopic sense of modern life, and they organized their urban-industrial images through rhythmic and associative montage that evoke musical structures. In this comprehensive volume, contributors consider the full 70 film corpus, from Manhatta and Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Grosstadt to lesser-known cinematic explorations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jacobs, Steven

Hielscher, Eva

Kinik, Anthony

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. Introduction Steven Jacobs, Anthony Kinik, and Eva Hielscher II. Case Studies 1. Moholy-Nagy and the City Symphony Edward Dimendberg and Steven Jacobs 2. Kleiner Film einer grossen Stadt… der Stadt Düsseldorf am Rhein Michael Cowan 3. Minor Paris Symphonies Christa Blümlinger 4. Moscow Malcolm Turvey 5. Skyscraper Symphony Merrill Schleier 6. Stramilano 7. Henri Storck, Charles Dekeukeleire, and the Belgian City Symphony Steven Jacobs 8. De Steeg Ivo Blom 9. De Maasbruggen Floris Paalman 10. Rotterdam: De Stad die Nooit Rust Eva Hielscher 11. Weltstadt in Flegeljahren. Ein Bericht über Chicago Eva Hielscher 12. Halsted Street Tom Gunning 13. A Bronx Morning Jan-Christopher Horak 14. Sao Paolo, a Symphonia da Metropole Ana Araujo 15. Rhapsody in Two Languages Anthony Kinik 16. The City Anthony Kinik III. The City Symphony Corpus

Über Autor(innen)

Steven Jacobs is an art historian specialized in the relation between film and the visual arts. His publications include The Wrong House: The Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock, Framing Pictures: Film and the Visual Arts, and The Dark Galleries: A Museum Guide to Painted Portraits in Film Noir.

Anthony Kinik’s work spans documentary, experimental, avant-garde, and industrial practices, and his principal focus in recent years has been on the cinematic depiction of the urban environment, including the city symphonies cycle of the interwar period and Montreal as a “cinematic city” in the 1960s. He currently teaches at the Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film at Brock University.

Eva Hielscher is a PhD candidate at Ghent University, film researcher, and moving image archivist. She holds an MA degree in “Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image” from the University of Amsterdam, and has studied media culture and film history in Weimar and Utrecht.