R Bruce Elder

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Dada, Surrealism, and the Cinematic EffectPaperback, 15 October 2015

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Part of Series
Film and Media Studies
Print Length
776 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Date Published
15 Oct 2015
ISBN-10
1771121998
ISBN-13
9781771121996

Description

This book deals with the early intellectual reception of the cinema and the manner in which art theorists, philosophers, cultural theorists, and especially artists of the first decades of the twentieth century responded to its advent. While the idea persists that early writers on film were troubled by the cinema's lowly form, this work proposes that there was another, largely unrecognized, strain in the reception of it. Far from anxious about film's provenance in popular entertainment, some writers and artists proclaimed that the cinema was the most important art for the moderns, as it exemplified the vibrancy of contemporary life.

This view of the cinema was especially common among those whose commitments were to advanced artistic practices. Their notions about how to recast the art media (or the forms forged from those media's materials) and the urgency of doing so formed the principal part of the conceptual core of the artistic programs advanced by the vanguard art movements of the first half of the twentieth century. This book, a companion to the author's previous, Harmony & Dissent, examines the Dada and Surrealist movements as responses to the advent of the cinema.

Product Details

Author:
R Bruce Elder
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
15 October 2015
Dimensions:
22.61 x 14.99 x 3.56 cm
ISBN-10:
1771121998
ISBN-13:
9781771121996
Language:
English
Location:
Waterloo, ON
Pages:
776
Weight:
952.54 gm

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