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Introduction

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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Acknowledgments vii
  4. Notes on Contributors viii
  5. Chapter One. The Themersons and the Polish Avant-Garde: Warsaw – Paris – London 7
  6. ‘The inexpressible unearthly beauty of the cinematograph’: The impact of Polish Futurism on the First Polish avant-Garde Films 31
  7. Excerpts from the ‘Archives’ of the Polish Avant-Garde 57
  8. Chapter Three. The Search for a ‘More Spacious Form’: Experimental Trends in Polish Documentary (1945–1989) 65
  9. Chapter Four. Avant-Garde and the Thaw: Experimentation in Polish Cinema of the 1950s and 1960s 83
  10. Chapter Five. Avant-Garde Exploits: The Cultural Highs and Lows of Polish Émigré Cinema 93
  11. Chapter Six. The Mechanical Imagination – Creativity of Machines: Film Form Workshop 1970–1977 117
  12. The 1980s: From Specificity to the New Tradition – Avant-Garde Film and Video art in Poland 137
  13. Film Form Workshop Statements 143
  14. Chapter Eight. A Rebellion à la polonaise 155
  15. Bibliography 163
  16. Filmography 175
  17. Index of Names 179
  18. Introduction 1
The Struggle for Form
This chapter is in the book The Struggle for Form
https://doi.org/10.7312/kuc-16982-intro

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Acknowledgments vii
  4. Notes on Contributors viii
  5. Chapter One. The Themersons and the Polish Avant-Garde: Warsaw – Paris – London 7
  6. ‘The inexpressible unearthly beauty of the cinematograph’: The impact of Polish Futurism on the First Polish avant-Garde Films 31
  7. Excerpts from the ‘Archives’ of the Polish Avant-Garde 57
  8. Chapter Three. The Search for a ‘More Spacious Form’: Experimental Trends in Polish Documentary (1945–1989) 65
  9. Chapter Four. Avant-Garde and the Thaw: Experimentation in Polish Cinema of the 1950s and 1960s 83
  10. Chapter Five. Avant-Garde Exploits: The Cultural Highs and Lows of Polish Émigré Cinema 93
  11. Chapter Six. The Mechanical Imagination – Creativity of Machines: Film Form Workshop 1970–1977 117
  12. The 1980s: From Specificity to the New Tradition – Avant-Garde Film and Video art in Poland 137
  13. Film Form Workshop Statements 143
  14. Chapter Eight. A Rebellion à la polonaise 155
  15. Bibliography 163
  16. Filmography 175
  17. Index of Names 179
  18. Introduction 1
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