Michael Cowan

Walter Ruttmann and the Cinema of Multiplicity

Avant-Garde Film - Advertising - Modernity

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Produktbeschreibung

A leading figure of the interwar avant-garde, director Walter Ruttmann enriched the language of the cinema through numerous innovations in film form.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9789089645852
• ISBN-10: 9089645853
• Artikelnr.: 39634082

Autorenporträt

Michael Cowan is Professor of film and media history in the Department of Cinematic Arts at the University of Iowa. His research, focused on German and European cinema, examines the broader cultural and technological contexts in which film practices emerged and evolved in the early 20th century. His publications have won numerous awards from the Society of Film and Media Studies and the British Association of Film and Television Studies Scholars, as well as the Willy Haas Award (Germany) and the Limina Award (Italy).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Avant-Garde, Advertising and the Managing of Multiplicity 1.
Absolute Advertising: Abstraction and Figuration in Ruttmann's Animated
Product Advertisements (1922-1927) 2. The Cross-Section: Images of theWorld
and Contingency Management in Ruttmann's Montage Films of the Late 1920s
(1927-1929) 3. Statistics and Biopolitics: Conceiving the National Body in
Ruttmann's Hygiene Films (1930-1933) 4. Überall Stahl: Forming the New
Nation in Ruttmann's Steel and Armament Films (1934-1940) Afterword: Of
Good and Bad Objects, Notes, Bibliography, Filmograph, Index of Names,
Index of Film Titles, Index of Subjects.