The City Symphony Phenomenon (eBook, ePUB)

Cinema, Art, and Urban Modernity Between the Wars
Redaktion: Jacobs, Steven; Kinik, Anthony; Hielscher, Eva

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 80 film corpus, from Manhatta and Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Grosstadt to lesser-known cinematic explorations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317215578
• Artikelnr.: 56832603

Autorenporträt

Steven Jacobs is an art historian who specializes 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. He teaches at Ghent University and the University of Antwerp. 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 is an Assistant Professor of Film Studies with the Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film at Brock University in St. Catherines, Ontario. Eva Hielscher is a film scholar, curator, and moving image archivist. She holds an MA degree in "Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image" from the University of Amsterdam and has worked as a PhD researcher at Ghent University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I:

Introduction: The City Symphony Phenomenon 1920-1940



Steven Jacobs, Anthony Kinik, and Eva Hielscher



Part II:

1. László MoholyNagy and the City (Symphony)



Malte Hagener



2. Productive City: Ruttmann's Düsseldorf: Kleiner Film einer großen Stadt



Michael Cowan



3. Minor Paris City Symphonies



Christa Blümlinger



4. Kaufman and Kopalin's Moscow



Malcolm Turvey



5. A Parisian in Manhattan: Florey's Skyscraper Symphony



Merrill Schleier



6. D'Errico's Stramilano



John David Rhodes



7. Belgian Variations on the City Symphony Theme



Steven Jacobs



8. Koelinga's De Steeg: Palimpsest and Parallax Historiography



Ivo Blom



9. Schuitema's De Maasbruggen: City and Film as a Process



Floris Paalman



10. Von Barsy and Von Maydell's The City that Never Rests: A Port City Symphony



Eva Hielscher



11. Hauser's Weltstadt in Flegeljahren: An Americanist City Symphony



Eva Hielscher



12. Oneway Street: Conrad's Halsted Street



Tom Gunning



13. Leyda's A Bronx Morning



JanChristopher Horak



14. Kemeny and Lustig's Sao Paolo, a Symphonia da Metropole



Cristina Menguello



15. Sparling's Canadian City Symphonies



Anthony Kinik



16. Steiner and Van Dyke's The City



Anthony Kinik

Part III:

17. A Survey of City Symphonies 19201940



Eva Hielscher, Steven Jacobs, and Anthony Kinik

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"The City Symphony Phenomenon: Cinema, Art, and Urban Modernity Between the Wars, a product of scholarly sleuthing and obsession, is a fascinating and valuable achievement."

- Charles Musser, Yale University, USA

"With the publication of The City Symphony Phenomenon: Cinema, Art, and Urban Modernity Between the Wars, editors Steven Jacobs, Eva Hielscher, and Anthony Kinik have created an invaluable contribution to the understanding of this compelling form of international film modernism."

- S. Topiary Landberg, UCSC, USA

"The City Symphony Phenomenon: Cinema, Art, and Urban Modernity Between the Wars, a product of scholarly sleuthing and obsession, is a fascinating and valuable achievement."

- Charles Musser, Yale University, USA

"With the publication of The City Symphony Phenomenon: Cinema, Art, and Urban Modernity Between the Wars, editors Steven Jacobs, Eva Hielscher, and Anthony Kinik have created an invaluable contribution to the understanding of this compelling form of international film modernism."

- S. Topiary Landberg, UCSC, USA