{"product_id":"visions-of-avant-garde-film-polish-cinematic-experiments-from-expressionism-to-constructivism-paperback-softback-9780253024022","title":"Visions of Avant-Garde Film; Polish Cinematic Experiments from Expressionism to Constructivism (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253024022","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eVisions of Avant-Garde Film\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePolish Cinematic Experiments from Expressionism to Constructivism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKamila Kuc (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253024022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 12 December 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e246 pages, 20 b\u0026amp;w illus. - 20 Illustrations, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.34 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKuc's ambitious project provides a comprehensive view of Polish avant-garde film before 1945, making a solid contribution to the experimental cinema field of studies and showing how illuminating an account based on sources other than realized films can be for early avant-garde cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e (Slavic Review) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKamila Kuc's \u003cem\u003eVisions of Avant-Garde Film \u003c\/em\u003eis devoted to the beginnings of the Polish film avant-garde. The author of this volume proposes an original perspective, paying attention to phenomena that have not been yet described or that have been so far ignored. Her reflection focuses on the relationship between the film and other areas of the avant-garde. [This] book is not only valuable by filling the gap in the literature devoted to early Polish experimental cinema, but also an original proposal of an 'alternative' cinema history.\u003c\/p\u003e (Kwartalnik Filmowy) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[E]very chapter [is] a revelation in this still understudied area of Eastern European cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e (Canadian Journal of Film Studies)\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eWarsaw- 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003ePart One: Proto-Cinematic Phase: The Pioneers (1896 - 1918)\u003cbr\u003e1. \"The Cinematograph\" and Historical Consciousness: Actualities and the Early Experiments with Film in the Polish Territories\u003cbr\u003e2. Discovering Medium Specificity: The First Polish Claims for Film as Art\u003cbr\u003e3. The First Polish Experiment with Film: Feliks Kuczkowski's Animation in the Context of the International Avant-Garde\u003cbr\u003ePart Two: Polish Avant-Garde Movements and Film (1919 - 1945)\u003cbr\u003e4. Karol Irzykowski's The Tenth Muse: Animated Film as the Highest Form of Film Art\u003cbr\u003e5. The Theoretical Apparatus: Polish Futurism and Avant-Garde Film\u003cbr\u003e6. Polish Avant-Garde Films, Discourses, and the Concept of Photogénie\u003cbr\u003e7. Polish Avant-Garde Film and Constructivism\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eSelected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52525042893080,"sku":"9780253024022","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/visions-of-avant-garde-film-polish-cinematic-experiments-from-expressionism-to-constructivism-paperback-softback-9780253024022","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}