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Walter Ruttmann and the cinema of multiplicity : Avant-Garde, advertising, modernity / Michael Cowan.
- Title
- Walter Ruttmann and the cinema of multiplicity : Avant-Garde, advertising, modernity / Michael Cowan.
- Author
- Cowan, Michael J., 1971-
- Publication
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, c2014.
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- Description
- 259 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- An early practitioner of experimental film, Walter Ruttmann made his well-known 'Berlin: Symphony of a Great City' in 1927 and later worked as an assistant to director Leni Riefenstahl during the production of 'Triumph of the Will.' Tracing Ruttmann's career from the 1920s through the 1940s against the backdrop of a changing Germany, this book details the ideological and aesthetic shifts between the filmmaker's animation, montage works, and later propaganda films. In the process, it draws our attention to previously neglected bodies of film material and calls for a new focus on the institutional and financial contexts in which films are commissioned and distributed.
- Series Statement
- Film Culture in Transition
- Uniform Title
- Film culture in transition.
- Subject
- 1900 - 1999
- Experimental films
- Experimental films > Germany > History and criticism
- Experimentalfilm
- Germany
- Motion picture producers and directors
- Motion picture producers and directors > Germany > 20th century
- Ruttmann, Walter 1887-1941
- Ruttmann, Walter, 1887-1941 > Criticism and interpretation
- Ruttmann, Walter, 1887-1941
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and indexes.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction : avant-garde, advertising and the managing of multiplicity -- Absolute advertising : abstraction and figuration in Ruttmann's animated product advertisements (1922-1927) -- The cross-section : images of the world and contingency management in Ruttmann's montage films of the late 1920s (1927-1929) -- Statistics and biopolitics : conceiving the national body in Ruttmann's hygiene films (1930-1933) -- "Überall Stahl" : forming the new nation in Ruttmann's steel and armament films (1934-1940) -- Afterword : of good and bad objects.
- ISBN
- 9789089645852
- 9089645853
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library