Author

Publication

2014 - Amsterdam University Press

Language

English

Word Count

85,000 words, Guess

Page Count

340 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139789048521890
  • ISBN-109048521890
  • Better World Books9789048521890
  • Open LibraryOL34602955M

Classifications

  • LCCPN1998

Description

An early practitioner of experimental film, Walter Ruttmann made his well-known 'Berlin: Symphony of a Great City' in 1927 and later worked as an assistant to director Leni Riefenstahl during the production of 'Triumph of the Will.' Tracing Ruttmann's career from the 1920s through the 1940s against the backdrop of a changing Germany, this book details the ideological and aesthetic shifts between the filmmaker's animation, montage works, and later propaganda films. In the process, it draws our attention to previously neglected bodies of film material and calls for a new focus on the institutional and financial contexts in which films are commissioned and distributed.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Walter Ruttmann and the Cinema of MultiplicityAmsterdam University Press2014

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