Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Introduction: The Emergence of Film Culture 1
6. I. Formations of Knowledge
7. 1. Policing Race: Postcolonial Critique, Censorship and Regulatory Responses to the Cinema in Weimar Film Culture 21
8. 2. The Visible Woman in and against Béla Balázs 46
9. 3. Encounters in Darkened Rooms: Alternative Programming of the Dutch Filmliga, 1927–31 72
10. 4. When Was Soviet Cinema Born? The Institutionalization of Soviet Film Studies and the Problems of Periodization 118
11. II. Networks of Exchange
12. 5. Eastern Avatars: Russian Influence on European Avant- Gardes 143
13. 6. Early Yugoslav Ciné-amateurism: Cinéphilia and the Institutionalization of Film Culture in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia during the Interwar Period 162
14. 7. Soviet–Italian Cinematic Exchanges: Transnational Film Education in the 1930s 180
15. 8. The Avant-Garde, Education and Marketing: The Making of Non-theatrical Film Culture in Interwar Switzerland 199
16. III Emergence of Institutions
17. 9. Interwar Film Culture in Sweden: Avant-Garde Transactions in the Emergent Welfare State 227
18. 10. Building the Institution: Luigi Chiarini and Italian Film Culture in the 1930s 249
19. 11. A New Art for a New Society? The Emergence and Development of Film Schools in Europe 268
20. 12. Institutions of Film Culture: Festivals and Archives as Network Nodes 283
21. 13. The German Reich Film Archive in an International Context 306
22. Notes on Contributors 339
23. Select Bibliography 343
24. Index 365