Futurist Cinema
Studies on Italian Avant-garde Film
Rossella Catanese
Giovanni Lista
Paolo Bertetto
Valentina Valente
Sabine Schrader
Wanda Strauven
Elisa Uffreduzzi
Antonio Saccoccio
Giancarlo Carpi
Denis Lotti
9789089647528
248 pages
Amsterdam University Press
Overview
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, bringing in avant-garde artists and their manifestos to show how painters and other artists turned to cinema as a model for overcoming the inherently static nature of painting in order to rethink it for a new era.
Author Bio
Rossella Catanese is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Udine and at NYU Florence.
