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Klappentext This book, the first full critical overview of the film avant-garde, ushers in a new approach—and in the process creates its own subject. While many books have studied particular aspects of the European film avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s, Moving Forward, Looking Back provides a much-needed summary of the theory and practice of the movement, while also emphasizing aspects of the period that have been overlooked. Arguing that a European perspective is the only way to understand the transnational movement, the book also pioneers a new approach to the alternative cinema network that sustained the avant-garde, paying particular attention to the emergence of film culture as visible in screening clubs, film festivals, and archives. It will be essential to anyone interested in the influential movement and the film culture it created. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents - 6[-]Acknowledgements - 8[-]Introduction: Avant-garde Culture and Technological Transformations - 12[-]Ch.1:Reframing the Historical Avant-garde - Media, Historiography and Mehtod - 20[-]Ch.2: The Dialectics of Self-Conception - Film Avant-garde and Industry Around 1930 - 42[-]Ch.3:Strategic Convergence and Functional Differentiation - The Film Societies and Ciné-Clubs of the 1920s and 30s - 78[-]Ch.4:Mapping a Totality of Networks, Nodes and Flows - Discourses as Practice - 122[-]Ch.5:Vanishing Point Soviet Union - Soviet Cinema and the West between Innovation and Repression - 160[-]Ch.6: Melodies Across the Oceans - The Intersection of Documentary and Avant-garde - 206[-]Conclusion - Bridging the Gaps, Connecting the Dots - 236[-]Notes - 244[-]Bibliography - 308[-]Filmography - 346[-]Index of Names - 354[-]Index of Film Titles - 362[-]Index of Subjects - 366
