Lovers of Cinema: The First American Film Avant-garde, 1919-1945Jan-Christopher Horak Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1995 - 404 Seiten Marshaling his broad cinematic and cultural knowledge, editor Jan-Christopher Horak has compiled in Lovers of Cinema a groundbreaking group of articles on this neglected film period. With one exception, all are original to this volume, and many are the first to treat comprehensively such early filmmakers as Mary Ellen Bute, Theodore Huff, and Douglass Crockwell. Also included in the book is a listing of all American avant-garde films produced in the years before World War II as well as a bibliography of the most relevant criticism, literature, and news accounts. |
Inhalt
History in the Gaps | 3 |
Ralph Steiner 205 | 10 |
The First American Film AvantGarde 19191945 | 14 |
The Limits of Experimentation in Hollywood | 67 |
Robert Florey and the Hollywood AvantGarde | 94 |
Man Ray and Dudley Murphy | 118 |
Amateur Film and the Early AvantGarde | 137 |
U S Modernism and the Emergence of The Right Wing | 156 |
Paul Strand and Charles Sheelers Manhatta | 267 |
The Films of Leyda Browning | 287 |
Mary Ellen Bute | 315 |
Douglass Crockwell | 335 |
Filmmakers of the First American AvantGarde | 363 |
Bibliography | 383 |
397 | |
Historian and Filmmaker | 180 |
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