Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewKuc's ambitious project provides a comprehensive view of Polish avant-garde film before 1945, making a solid contribution to the experimental cinema field of studies and showing how illuminating an account based on sources other than realized films can be for early avant-garde cinema.
* Slavic Review *
Kamila Kuc's Visions of Avant-Garde Film is devoted to the beginnings of the Polish film avant-garde. The author of this volume proposes an original perspective, paying attention to phenomena that have not been yet described or that have been so far ignored. Her reflection focuses on the relationship between the film and other areas of the avant-garde. [This] book is not only valuable by filling the gap in the literature devoted to early Polish experimental cinema, but also an original proposal of an 'alternative' cinema history.
* Kwartalnik Filmowy *
[E]very chapter [is] a revelation in this still understudied area of Eastern European cinema.
* Canadian Journal of Film Studies *
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Proto-Cinematic Phase: The Pioneers (1896 - 1918)
1. "The Cinematograph" and Historical Consciousness: Actualities and the Early Experiments with Film in the Polish Territories
2. Discovering Medium Specificity: The First Polish Claims for Film as Art
3. The First Polish Experiment with Film: Feliks Kuczkowski's Animation in the Context of the International Avant-Garde
Part Two: Polish Avant-Garde Movements and Film (1919 - 1945)
4. Karol Irzykowski's The Tenth Muse: Animated Film as the Highest Form of Film Art
5. The Theoretical Apparatus: Polish Futurism and Avant-Garde Film
6. Polish Avant-Garde Films, Discourses, and the Concept of Photogénie
7. Polish Avant-Garde Film and Constructivism
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Index
