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Informationen zum Autor Kamila Kuc is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. A writer, experimental filmmaker and curator, she publishes widely on the subject of film and media. She has curated programs of experimental film for international film festivals and venues and her films have been screened at international film festivals. More information on her work can be found at her website: www.kamilakuc.com. Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Proto-Cinematic Phase: The Pioneers (1896 - 1918) 1. "The Cinematograph" and Historical Consciousness: Actualities and the Early Experiments with Film in the Polish Territories 2. Discovering Medium Specificity: The First Polish Claims for Film as Art 3. The First Polish Experiment with Film: Feliks Kuczkowski's Animation in the Context of the International Avant-Garde Part Two: Polish Avant-Garde Movements and Film (1919 - 1945) 4. Karol Irzykowski's The Tenth Muse: Animated Film as the Highest Form of Film Art 5. The Theoretical Apparatus: Polish Futurism and Avant-Garde Film 6. Polish Avant-Garde Films, Discourses, and the Concept of Photogénie 7. Polish Avant-Garde Film and Constructivism Conclusion Selected Bibliography Index
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Kamila Kuc is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. A writer, experimental filmmaker and curator, she publishes widely on the subject of film and media. She has curated programs of experimental film for international film festivals and venues and her films have been screened at international film festivals. More information on her work can be found at her website: www.kamilakuc.com.
