Futurist Cinema: Studies on Italian Avant-Garde Film

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. And 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 explores 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 908964752X
• ISBN13: 9789089647528
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"