Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. Preface: The Poly-expressive Symphony of Futurist Cinema 9
5. Section 1: Joyful Deformation Of The Universe
6. 1. Introduction. The Poetics of Futurist Cinema 19
7. 2. Speed and Dynamism. Futurism and the Soviet Cinematographic Avant-garde 33
8. 3. Futurism and Film Theories. Manifesto of Futurist Cinema and Theories in Italy in the 1910-1920s 45
9. 4. Film Aesthetics Without Films 57
10. 5. Marinetti’s Tattilismo Revisited. Hand Travels, Tactile Screens, and Touch Cinema in the 21st Century 69
11. 6. Dance and Futurism in Italian Silent Cinema 89
12. 7. Futurism and cinema in the 1910s. A reinterpretation starting from McLuhan 103
13. 8. The Human in the Fetish of the Human. Cuteness in Futurist Cinema, Literature, and Visual Arts 115
14. Section 2: Daily Filmed Exercises Designed To Free Us From Logic
15. 9. Yambo on the moon of Verne and Méliès. From La colonia lunare to Un matrimonio interplanetario 133
16. 10. An Avant-Garde Heritage. Vita futurista 147
17. 11. Thaïs. A Different Challenge to the Stars 163
18. 12. Velocità, a Screenplay by F.T. Marinetti. From Futurist Simultaneity to Live Streaming Media 181
19. 13. Velocità/Vitesse. Filmed Dramas of Objects and ‘avant-garde integrale’ 195
20. 14. From Science to the Marvellous. The Illusion of Movement, Between Chronophotography and Contemporary Cinema 209
21. Section 3: Shop Windows Of Filmed Ideas, Events, Types, Objects
22. Chronology 225
23. Filmography 241
24. Index 255