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Free Download Michael Cowan, "Walter Ruttmann and the Cinema of Multiplicity: Avant-Garde Film - Advertising - Modernity "
English | ISBN: 9089645853 | 2014 | 260 pages | PDF | 4 MB
-Winner of the Willy Haas Award for best book on German cinema-Finalist for the Kraszna-Krausz Award in the category of Moving Image-Honourable mention in the BAFFTS Books Prize. In this award-winning study, Michael Cowan reframes our understanding of early avant-garde film by probing the career of one of its towering figures. Walter Ruttmann was a pioneer of both experimental and documentary film, but also active in advertising and-after 1933-Nazi propaganda. Examining Ruttmann's work as a whole, Cowan's book reevaluates experimental film culture by probing the links between abstraction, montage and modes of governmentality that were crucial to mass modernity in both its democratic and fascist variants.