The Emergence of Film Culture: Knowledge Production, Institution Building, and the Fate of the Avant-Garde in Europe, 1919–1945 (Film Europa, 16)

Between the two world wars, a distinct and vibrant film culture emerged in Europe. Film festivals and schools were established; film theory and history was written that took cinema seriously as an art form; and critical writing that created the film canon flourished. This scene was decidedly transnational and creative, overcoming traditional boundaries between theory and practice, and between national and linguistic borders. This new European film culture established film as a valid form of social expression, as an art form, and as a political force to be reckoned with. By examining the extraordinarily rich and creative uses of cinema in the interwar period, we can examine the roots of film culture as we know it today. Malte Hagener: Introduction -- Formations Of Knowledge. Tobias Nagl: Policing Race: Postcolonial Critique, Censorship And Regulatory Responses To The Cinema In Weimar Film Culture -- Erica Carter: The Visible Woman In And Against Bøla Baløzs -- Tom Gunning: Encounters In Darkened Rooms: Alternative Programming Of The Dutch Filmliga, 1927-1931 -- Natalya Ryabchikova: When Was Soviet Cinema Born? The Institututionalization Of Soviet Film Studies And The Problems Of Periodization -- Networks Of Exchange. Ian Christie: Eastern Avatars: Russian Influence On European Avant-gardes -- Greg Decuir, Jr.: Early Yugoslav Cinø-amateurism: Cinøphilia And The Institutionalization Of Film Culture In The Kingdom Of Yugoslavia During The Interwar Period -- Masha Salazkina: Soviet-italian Cinematic Exchanges: Transnational Film Education In The 1930s -- Yvonne Zimmermann: The Avant-garde, Education And Marketing: The Making Of Non-theatrical Film Culture In Interwar Switzerland -- Emergence Of Institutions. Lars Gustaf Andersson: Interwar Film Culture In Sweden: Avant-garde Transactions In The Emergent Welfare State -- Francesco Pitassio, Simone Venturini: Building The Institution: Luigi Chiarini And Italian Film Culture In The 1930s -- Duncan Petrie: A New Art For A New Society? The Emergence And Development Of Film Schools In Europe -- Malte Hagener: Institutions Of Film Culture: Festivals And Archives As Network Nodes -- Rolf Aurich: The German Reichsfilmarchiv In An International Context. Edited By Malte Hagener. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.