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The filming of modern life : European avant-garde film of the 1920s / Malcolm Turvey.

By: Turvey, Malcolm, 1969- [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: xii, 213 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780262525114 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Experimental films -- Europe -- History and criticism | Art and motion pictures -- Europe | Art and society -- Europe -- History -- 20th cenutry | Modernism (Art) -- Europe | Performing Arts | Performing ArtsDDC classification: 791.4'3611'094'09042 Summary: Turvey argues that the European avant-garde films of the 1920s share a concern with modernization and the rapid, dislocating changes it was bringing about. He critically addresses major theories of the avant-garde and its relation to modern life.
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"An October book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Turvey argues that the European avant-garde films of the 1920s share a concern with modernization and the rapid, dislocating changes it was bringing about. He critically addresses major theories of the avant-garde and its relation to modern life.

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