Project

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

Code
01N00313
Duration
01 January 2013 → 31 October 2017
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
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.