Michael Cowan

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Walter Ruttmann and the Cinema of Multiplicity: Avant-Garde Film - Advertising - ModernityHardcover, 28 January 2014

Walter Ruttmann and the Cinema of Multiplicity: Avant-Garde Film - Advertising - Modernity
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Film Culture in Transition
Part of Series
Film Culture in Transition (Hardcover)
Print Length
260 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Date Published
28 Jan 2014
ISBN-10
9089645853
ISBN-13
9789089645852

Description

A key figure in early avant-garde cinema, Walter Ruttmann was a pioneer of experimental animation and the creative force behind one of the silent era's most celebrated montage films, Berlin: Symphony of a Great City. Yet even as he was making experimental films, Ruttmann had a day job. He worked regularly in advertising -and he would go on to make industrial films, medical films, and even Nazi propaganda films.

Michael Cowan offers here the first study of Ruttmann in English, not only shedding light on his commercial, industrial, and propaganda work, but also rethinking his significance in light of recent transformations in film studies. Cowan brilliantly teases out the linkages between the avant-garde and industrial society in the early twentieth century, showing how Ruttmann's films incorporated and enacted strategies for managing the multiplicities of mass society.

This book has won the Willy Haas Award 2014 for its outstanding contribution to the study of German cinema.

Product Details

Author:
Michael Cowan
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
28 January 2014
Dimensions:
23.37 x 15.49 x 2.03 cm
ISBN-10:
9089645853
ISBN-13:
9789089645852
Language:
English
Location:
Amsterdam
Pages:
260
Weight:
521.63 gm

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