A Modernist Cinema: Film Art from 1914 to 1941

Cover
A Modernist Cinema
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Giovanni Pastrone’s Cabiria, Gesture, Modernism
2. D. W. Griffith’s Intolerance and the Ever-​Present Now
3. Sergei Eisenstein’s Collage: Filming Montage in Museums at Night
4. From Automaton to Autonomy: Mechanical Reproduction in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis
5. “Suspense Is like a Woman”: Sex and Style in Alfred Hitchcock’s Pleasure Garden and The Lodger
6. F. W. Murnau’s Sunrise: Between Two Worlds
7. “A Language Worth the Trouble of Learning”? Carl Theodor Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc
8. Intervals of Transition: Dziga Vertov’s The Man with a Movie Camera
9. Luis Buñuel, Surrealism, and the Politics of Disorder
10. Ozu Yasujirō’s A Story of Floating Weeds and the Art of Being Behind
11. “That Saves Them the Blessings of Civilization”: John Ford’s Stagecoach, the West, and American Vernacular Modernism
12. “Tout le monde a ses raisons”: The Problem of Impressionist Commitment in Jean Renoir’s La Règle du jeu
13. “You Must Speak”: Silence, Scale, and Power in Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator
14. Leni Riefenstahl’s Nazi Neoclassicism: Olympia (1938)
15. On Auratic and Sentimental Objects: High and Low Modernism in Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane
List of Contributors
Index