The Emergence of Film Culture: Knowledge Production, Institution Building, and the Fate of the Avant-Garde in Europe, 1919-1945

by Malte Hagener

Book Overview

Between the two world wars, a distinct and vibrant film culture emerged in Europe. Film festivals and schools were established; film theory and history was written that took cinema seriously as an art form; and critical writing that created the film canon flourished. This scene was decidedly transnational and creative, overcoming traditional boundaries between theory and practice, and between national and linguistic borders. This new European...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785333542
• ISBN13: 9781785333545
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"