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Author Jacobs, Steven

Title The City Symphony Phenomenon : Cinema, Art, and Urban Modernity Between the Wars
Published Milton : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (410 pages)
Series AFI Film Readers Ser
AFI Film Readers Ser
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; contents; illustrations; preface; acknowledgments; part one; introduction: the city symphony phenomenon 1920-40; part two; 1. lászló moholy-nagy and the city (symphony); 2. productive city: ruttmann's düsseldorf: kleiner film einer großen stadt; 3. minor paris city symphonies; 4. kaufman and kopalin's moscow; 5. a parisian in manhattan: florey's skyscraper symphony; 6. d'errico's stramilano; 7. belgian variations on the city symphony theme; 8. koelinga's de steeg: palimpsest and parallax historiography; 9. schuitema's de maasbruggen: city and film as a process
10. von barsy and von maydell's de stad die nooit rust: a port city symphony11. hauser's weltstadt in flegeljahren: an americanist city symphony; 12. one-way street: conrad's halsted street; 13. leyda's a bronx morning; 14. kemeny and lustig's são paulo: sinfonia da metrópole; 15. sparling's canadian city symphonies; 16. steiner and van dyke's the city; part three; survey of city symphonies 1920-40; -- manhatta (charles sheeler and paul strand, 1921); -- jeux des reflets et de la vitesse (henri chomette, 1925); -- rien que les heures (alberto cavalcanti, 1926)
Moskva (mikhail kaufman and ilya kopalin, 1926)- berlin. die sinfonie der grosstadt (walter ruttmann, 1927); -- twenty-four dollar island (robert flaherty, 1927); -- études des mouvements à paris (joris ivens, 1927); -- de brug (joris ivens, 1928); -- de stad die nooit rust (friedrich von maydell and andor von barsy, 1928); -- praha v záři světel (svatopluk innemann, 1928); -- shankhaiskii dokument (yakov bliokh, 1928); -- sinfonia de cataguases (humberto mauro, 1928); -- visages de paris (rené moreau, 1928); -- paris express ou souvenirs de paris (marcel duhamel and pierre prévert, 1928)
Études sur paris (andré sauvage, 1928)- la zone: au pays des chiffonniers (georges lacombe, 1928); -- les halles (boris kaufman and andré galitzine, 1927 or 1929); -- harmonies de paris (lucie derain, 1929); -- vingt-quatre heures en trente minutes (jean lods and boris kaufman, 1929); -- champs-élysées (jean lods, 1929); -- les nuits électriques (eugène deslaw, 1929); -- nogent: el dorado du dimanche (marcel carné, 1929); -- impressionen vom alten marseiller hafen (vieux port) (lászló moholy-nagy, 1929); -- markt in berlin (wilfried basse, 1929)
Mit der pferdedroschke durch berlin (carl froelich, 1929)- impressionen der großstadt (alex strasser, 1929); -- prater (friedrich kuplent, 1929); -- chelovek s kinoapparatom (dziga vertov, 1929); -- vesnoy (mikhail kaufman, 1929); -- regen (joris ivens and mannus franken, 1929); -- hoogstraat (andor von barsy, 1929); -- images d'ostende (henri storck, 1929); -- midi (lucien backman, 1929); -- kermesse flamande (carlo queeckers, 1929); -- stramilano (corrado d'errico, 1929); -- a day in liverpool (anson dyer, 1929); -- skyscraper symphony (robert florey, 1929)
Symphony of the rebuilding of the imperial metropolis (tokyo institute for municipal research, 1929)
Summary 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 full80 film corpus, fromManhattaand Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Grosstadt to lesser-known cinematic explorations
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Subject Cities and towns in motion pictures.
City symphonies (Motion pictures)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
ART -- Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
Cities and towns in motion pictures
City symphonies (Motion pictures)
Form Electronic book
Author Hielscher, Eva
Kinik, Anthony
ISBN 9781317215578
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9781317215585
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9781317215561
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9781315619989
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