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Project

City Symphonies: Urban Modernity, Film, and Avant-Garde (1920-1940)

Outputs and Outcomes

Code

01N00313

Duration

01 January 2013 → 31 October 2017

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

Promotor

Steven Jacobs

Research disciplines

Humanities and the arts
- History
- Theory and methodology of philosophy
- Philosophy
- Ethics
- Other philosophy, ethics and religious studies not elsewhere classified
- Art studies and sciences

Keywords

metropolis film avant-garde History Art Media

Project description

Study about the city symphony, a film genre of the inter-war period that combines aspects of the feature film, documentary, and experimental cinema. The genre is closely connected to metropolitan modernity as well as the art of contemporaneous avant-garde currents.

English

Dutch

English

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