Visions of Avant-Garde Film

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Visions of Avant-Garde Film is written by Kamila Kuc and published by Indiana University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0253024056 (ISBN 10) and 9780253024053 (ISBN 13).

Warsaw- and London-based filmmakers Franciszka and Stefan Themerson are often recognized internationally as pioneers of the 1930s Polish avant-garde. Yet, from the turn of the century to the end of the 1920s, Poland's literary and art scenes were also producing a rich array of criticism and early experiments with the moving image that set the stage for later developments in the avant-garde. In this comprehensive and accessible study, Kamila Kuc draws on myriad undiscovered archival sources to tell the history of early Polish avant-garde movements—Symbolism, Expressionism, Futurism, and Constructivism—and to reveal their impact on later practices in art cinema.