| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Protocinematic phase: the pioneers (1896-1918). "The cinematograph" and historical consciousness: actualities as the earliest experiments with film in the Polish territories -- Discovering medium specificity: the first Polish claims for film as art -- The first Polish experiment with film: Feliks Kuczkowski's animation in the context of the international avant-garde -- Polish avant-garde movements and film (1919-1945). Karol Irzykowski's Tenth muse: animated film as the highest form of film art -- The theoretical apparatus: Polish futurism and avant-garde film -- Polish avant-garde films, discourses, and the concept of photogenie -- Polish avant-garde film and constructivism -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
Warsaw- and London-based filmmakers Franciszka and Stefan Themerson are often recognized internationally as pioneers of the 1930s Polish avant-garde. Yet, from the turn of the century to the end of the 1920s, Poland's literary and art scenes were also producing a rich array of criticism and early experiments with the moving image that set the stage for later developments in the avant-garde. In this comprehensive and accessible study, Kamila Kuc draws on myriad undiscovered archival sources to tell the history of early Polish avant-garde movements-Symbolism, Expressionism, Futurism, and Constructivism-and to reveal their impact on later practices in art cinema |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Experimental films -- Poland -- History and criticism
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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Experimental films
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Poland
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2016057716 |
| ISBN |
9780253024053 |
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0253024056 |
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