1st Edition

Futurist Cinema Studies on Italian Avant-garde Film

Edited By Rossella Catanese Copyright 2018
258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

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,... Read more
Acknowledgements, Preface, Section 1: Joyful Deformation Of The Universe, Section 2: Daily Filmed Exercises Designed To Free Us From Logic, Section 3: Shopwindows Of Filmed Ideas, Events, Types, Objects, Index

Biography

Rossella Catanese (PhD) is an associate professor at the University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy, and adjunct professor at NYU Florence. Her publications focus on avant-garde, experimental cinema, found footage, film heritage, and film restoration. She also received the Sixth Marcel Duchamp Research Grant from the Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Germany (2023).