Futurist cinema : studies on Italian avant-garde film / edited by Rossella Catanese.

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

"Futurism and early cinema shared a fascination with dynamic movement and speed, presenting both as harbingers of an emerging new way of life and new aesthetic criteria. The Futurists quickly latched on to cinema as a device with great potential to manipulate our perceptions in order to create a new world. In the edited collection 'Futurist Cinema', Rossella Catanese and the other authors explore that conjunction, bringing in avant-garde artists and their manifestos to show how painters and other artists turned to cinema as a model for overcoming the inherently static nature of painting, in order to rethink it for a new era."--Back cover

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Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface: The Poly-expressive Symphony of Futurist Cinema / Rossella Catanese -- Section 1: Joyful Deformation Of The Universe -- 1. Introduction: The Poetics of Futurist Cinema / Giovanni Lista -- 2. Speed and Dynamism: Futurism and the Soviet Cinematographic Avant-garde / Paolo Bertetto -- 3. Futurism and Film Theories: Manifesto of Futurist Cinema and Theories in Italy in the 1910-1920s / Valentina Valente -- 4. Film Aesthetics Without Films / Sabine Schrader -- 5. Marinetti's Tattilismo Revisited: Hand Travels, Tactile Screens, and Touch Cinema in the 21st Century / Wanda Strauven -- 6. Dance and Futurism in Italian Silent Cinema / Elisa Uffreduzzi -- 7. Futurism and cinema in the 1910s: A reinterpretation starting from McLuhan / Antonio Saccoccio -- 8. The Human in the Fetish of the Human: Cuteness in Futurist Cinema, Literature, and Visual Arts / Giancarlo Carpi -- Section 2: Daily Filmed Exercises Designed To Free Us From Logic -- 9. Yambo on the moon of Verne and Méliès: From La colonia lunare to Un matrimonio interplanetario / Denis Lotti -- 10. An Avant-Garde Heritage: 'Vita futurista' / Rossella Catanese -- 11. Thaïs: A Different Challenge to the Stars / Lucia Re -- 12. Velocità, a Screenplay by F.T. Marinetti: From Futurist Simultaneity to Live Streaming Media / Carolina Fernández Castrillo -- 13. Velocità/Vitesse: Filmed Dramas of Objects and 'avant-garde integrale' / Rossella Catanese -- 14. From Science to the Marvellous: The Illusion of Movement, Between Chronophotography and Contemporary Cinema / Francesca Veneziano -- Section 3: Shop Windows Of Filmed Ideas, Events, Types, Objects -- Chronology / Fernando Maramai -- Filmography / Marcello Seregni -- Index.

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