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modernist film

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Modernist film is related to the art and philosophy of modernism.

History

Early modernist film came to maturity in the era between World War I and World War II, with characteristics such as montage and symbolic imagery, manifesting itself in genres as diverse as expressionism and surrealism (as featured in the works of Fritz Lang and Luis Buñuel)[https://ourpastimes.com/characteristics-of-a-modernist-film-12545688.html Characteristics of a Modernist Film|Our Pastimes] while postmodernist film – similar to postmodernism as a whole – is a reaction to modernist works, and to their tendencies (such as nostalgia and angst).[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Beyond_the_Subtitle/jC2bowwzBjEC?hl=en&gbpv=1 Beyond the subtitle: remapping European art cinema: Betz, Mark - Google Books (pg.34)] Modernist cinema has been said to have "explored and exposed the formal concerns of the medium by placing them at the forefront of consciousness."Beginning Postmodernism, Manchester University Press: 1999 by Tim Woods The auteur theory and idea of an author creating a work from their singular vision became a central characteristic of modernist filmmaking. It has been said that "To investigate the transparency of the image is modernist but to undermine its reference to reality is to engage with the aesthetics of postmodernism."{{cite web|url=http://critcrim.org/critpapers/milovanovic_postmod.htm|title=Dueling Paradigms: Modernist v. Postmodern Thought|author=Dragan Milovanovic|date=15 March 2009 |publisher=American Society of Criminology}}"Reading the Postmodern Image: A Cognitive Mapping," Screen: 31, 4 (Winter 1990) by Tony Wilson The modernist film has more faith in the author, the individual, and the accessibility of reality itself (and generally has a more sincere tone[https://collider.com/postmodern-filmmaker-douglas-sirk/ The Case for Douglas Sirk as the First Postmodern Filmmaker|Collider]) than the postmodernist film.

List of notable modernist films

=List of notable modernist filmmakers=

Sources:{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6-EQ56vka6EC | title=Masterpieces of Modernist Cinema | isbn=0253347718 | last1=Perry | first1=Ted | year=2006 | publisher=Indiana University Press }}[https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199791286/obo-9780199791286-0162.xml Modernism and Film - Cinema and Media Studies - Oxford Bibliographies]{{cite journal | url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/220110/pdf | title=Modernism and the Cinema: Metropolis and the Expressionist Aesthetic | journal=Comparative Critical Studies | year=2007 | volume=4 | issue=1 | pages=105–120 | last1=Murphy | first1=Richard | doi=10.3366/ccs.2007.4.1.105 | s2cid=145016904 | url-access=subscription }}[https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199791286/obo-9780199791286-0062.xml Vertigo - Cinema and Media Studies - Oxford Bibliographies][https://academicworks.cuny.edu/bm_oers/27/ "Modernism and Citizen Kane" by George R. Robinson - BMCC][https://www.mmca.go.kr/eng/exhibitions/exhibitionsDetail.do?exhId=201908300001174 The Big Sleep: Cinema and Modernism > National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea][https://campuspress.yale.edu/modernismlab/german-cinema-1920-1930/ German Cinema, 1920-1930 — Modernism Lab]{{cite journal | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3700498 | jstor=3700498 | title=Sartre, the Philosophy of Nothingness, and the Modern Melodrama | last1=Kovács | first1=András Bálint | journal=The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | year=2006 | volume=64 | issue=1 | pages=135–145 | doi=10.1111/j.0021-8529.2006.00235.x | url-access=subscription }}[https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674013469 Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity —— Edward Dimendberg|Harvard University Press][https://www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature/articles/cinema-and-modernism# Cinema and modernism - The British Library][https://museumcrush.org/the-forgotten-glamour-and-modernism-of-1930s-italian-cinema-sets/ The forgotten glamour and modernism of 1930s Italian cinema sets – Museum Crush][https://blogs.iu.edu/aplaceforfilm/2017/10/02/modernism-montage-and-social-commentary-in-early-city-films/ Modernism, Montage, and Social Commentary in Early City Films — Indiana University Cinema][http://tupress.temple.edu/uploads/book/excerpt/1543_ch1.pdf Hollywood Modernism: Film and Politics in the Age of the New Deal][https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20181030-how-chantal-akermans-modernist-masterpiece-changed-cinema How Chantal Akerman's modernist masterpiece changed cinema - BBC Culture][https://www.cineaste.com/fall2008/screening-modernism Screening Modernism —— Cineaste Magazine][http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/53494 Anthology Film Archives : Film Screenings][https://www.universitypressbooks.com/book/9781438464121 American Stranger: Modernisms, Hollywood, and the Cinema of Nicholas Ray (Suny Series) (Paperback)|University Press Books/Berkeley][https://whitecitycinema.com/2012/03/12/sirkfassbinder-melodrama-mutations/ Sirk/Fassbinder: Melodrama Mutations|White City Cinema]{{cite book | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1pwt8s4 | jstor=10.3366/j.ctt1pwt8s4 | title=Douglas Sirk, Aesthetic Modernism and the Culture of Modernity | last1=Evans | first1=Victoria L. | year=2017 | isbn=9781474409391 }}[https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2008/feb/01/battleshippotemkinmakesusstrong Battleship Potemkin makes us strong|World cinema|The Guardian][https://books.google.com/books?id=eDwQDgAAQBAJ American Stranger - Google Books][http://www.cassone-art.com/magazine/article/2011/09/key-avant-garde-films-from-the-roaring-20s/?psrc=photography-and-media Key avant-garde films from the roaring '20s :: September 2011 :: Cassone][https://www.stanforddaily.com/2017/04/28/bedlambadbeautiful/ The sad and the beautiful : Val Lewton and Vincette Minnelli at the Stanford Theatre|The Stanford Daily][https://iupress.org/9780253218582/masterpieces-of-modernist-cinema/ Masterpieces of Modernist Cinema - Indiana University Press][https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1997-11-23-9711230476-story.html THE WORK OF IDA LUPINO EARNS SOME OVERDUE PRAISE - Chicago Tribune][https://library.villanova.edu/Find/Record/726025/TOC Table of Contents: Masterpieces of modernist cinema/ - Villanova University][https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2000/conference-for-the-love-of-fear/modernity/ Modernity: A Film by Alfred Hitchcock — Senses of Cinema][https://chicago.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.7208/chicago/9780226451664.001.0001/upso-9780226451633-chapter-18 Established Modernism, 1962-1966 - Chicago Scholarship][https://www.chapman.edu/research/institutes-and-centers/smith-institute-for-political-economy-and-philosophy/_files/documents/guest%20lecture%20materials/moses,-mv-saved-from-the-blessings-of-civilization-expanded-summary.pdf “ ‘Saved from the Blessings of Civilization’: Stagecoach, the West, and American Vernacular Modernism” - Michael Valdez Moses, Duke University][https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/yasujiro-ozu-10-essential-films Yasujiro Ozu: 10 essential films|BFI][https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/195-the-rashomon-effect The Rashomon Effect|The Current|The Criterion Collection][https://brightlightsfilm.com/quickie-look-life-career-tex-avery/#.YO9Y9D2SnIU A Quickie Look at the Life & Career of Tex Avery - Bright Lights Film Journal][https://brightlightsfilm.com/tex-avery-arch-radicalizer-of-the-hollywood-cartoon/#.YO9Z5D2SnIU Tex Avery: Arch-Radicalizer of the Hollywood Cartoon - Bright Lights Journal][https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1980/08/29/thats-all-folks/c280ae5b-2a16-4df6-a6dc-3e67d2bd5272/ That's All, Folks - The Washington Post][https://www.vulture.com/article/most-influential-best-scenes-animation-history.html The 100 Most Influential Sequences in Animation History - Vulture][https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/27/movies/the-cartoon-renegades.html The Cartoon Renegades - The New York Times][https://bampfa.org/program/alternative-visions-animation Alternative Visions: Animation|BAMPFA][https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/546393/independent-spirits-faith-hubley-john-hubley#overview Independent Spirits: Faith Hubley/John Hubley (2003) - Turner Classic Movies]{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MZYZDgAAQBAJ | title=Animators of Film and Television: Nineteen Artists, Writers, Producers and Others | isbn=9780786448326 | last1=Wolfgram Evans | first1=Noell K. | date=26 April 2011 | publisher=McFarland }}[https://scroll.in/reel/982459/amit-chaudhuri-on-satyajit-rays-very-indian-modernity-not-a-beginning-as-much-as-a-fruition Amit Chaudhuri on Satyajit Ray's very Indian modernity: Not a 'beginning' as much as a 'fruition' - Scroll.in][https://books.google.com/books?id=jEOSyjLc4L8C Cinema, Emergence, and the Films of Satyajit Ray - Google Books (pg.195)][https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2005/cteq/norman_mclaren/ The Riddle of the Chicken: The Work of Norman McLaren — Senses of Cinema][https://govettbrewster.com/len-lye/ The world of Len Lye|Govett-Brewster Art Gallery|Len Lye Centre][http://www.getty.edu/publications/keepitmoving/theoretical-issues/15-brobbel_rees/ "Pretty Good for the 21st Century||Keep It Moving?][https://books.google.com/books?id=YDkyBwAAQBAJ Film and Literary Modernism - Google Books][https://modernismmodernity.org/articles/statues-still-stood-third-man-and-third-spaces The Statues Still Stood: The Third Man and Third Spaces|Modernism / Modernity Print+][https://core.ac.uk/display/333651085 The Development of a Modernist Narrative in Selected Film of Joseph Losey - CORE][https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/rabi11480 Black & White & Noir: America's Pulp Modernism on JSTOR][https://www.pps.org/article/ten-great-movies-for-placemakers?utm-content=bufferce3ed&utm-medium=social&utm-source=twitter.com&utm-campaign=buffer Ten Great Movies for Placemakers —— Project for Public Spaces][https://books.google.com/books?id=od7_WdOylyoC Black & White & Noir: American Pulp Modernism - Google Books (pgs.11-12)]{{cite journal | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3132711 | jstor=3132711 | title=In the Modernist Mirror: Jacques Tati and the Parisian Landscape | last1=Hilliker | first1=Lee | journal=The French Review | year=2002 | volume=76 | issue=2 | pages=318–329 }}[https://collider.com/postmodern-filmmaker-douglas-sirk/ The Case for Douglas Sirk as the First Postmodern Filmmaker|Collider]{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RRW9tkc7KyQC | title=The Films of John Cassavetes: Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies | isbn=9780521388153 | last1=Carney | first1=Raymond | date=28 January 1994 | publisher=Cambridge University Press }}[https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/daring-original-overlooked-symbiopsychotaxiplasm-take-one The Daring, Original, and Overlooked "Symbiopyschotaxiplasm: Take One"|The New Yorker][https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/05/movies/homevideo/blake-edwardss-the-great-race-and-the-party.html Blake Edwards's 'The Great Race' and 'The Party' - The New York Times][http://www.screeningthepast.com/issue-30-tribute-to-blake-edwards/the-bitter-essence-of-blake-edwards/ The Bitter Essence of Blake Edwards|Screening the Past][https://www.filmmuseum.at/en/film_program/scope?schienen_id=1427295519326 Filmmuseum - Program SD][https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2015/feature-articles/hard-clarity-vaporous-ambiguity-the-fusion-of-realism-and-modernism-in-antonionis-early-1960s-films-1/ Hard Clarity, Vaporous Ambiguity: The Fusion of Realism and Modernism in Antonioni's early 1960s Films - Senses of Cinema][https://bampfa.org/program/modernist-master-michelangelo-antonioni Modernist Master: Michelangelo Antonioni | BAMPFA][https://www.criterion.com/films/28112-mr-klein Mr. Klein (1976)|The Criterion Collection][https://bampfa.org/event/mr-klein Mr. Klein | BAMPFA][https://www.culledculture.com/jean-paul-belmondo-pierrot-le-fou/ Pierrot Le Fou’s Discourse on the Infection of Americanism in Europe and the Absurdity of Modern Society|Culled Culture][https://www.jstor.org/stable/43797332 "All right: where am I?" "Looney Tunes" Animation as Modernist Performance on JSTOR][https://brightlightsfilm.com/john-cassavetes-the-first-dogme-director/#.YioscGrMK70 John Cassavetes: The First Dogma Director? - Bright Lights Film Journal]{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yLXSg8ySA_sC | title=The Death of Classical Cinema: Hitchcock, Lang, Minnelli | isbn=9780791481110 | last1=McElhaney | first1=Joe | date=February 2012 | publisher=State University of New York Press }}[https://books.google.com/books?id=oFVBEAAAQBAJ A Modernist Cinema - Google Books][https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2011/sep/05/postmodernism-close-encounters-third-kind Was postmodernism born with Close Encounters of the Third Kind?|Culture|The Guardian][https://books.google.com/books?id=fYX4AAAAQBAJ&dq=kubrick+modernist&pg=PT24 Kubrick's Total Cinema: Philosophical Themes and Formal Qualities - Google Books][https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2021/book-reviews/time-machines-after-kubrick-a-filmmakers-legacy-edited-by-jeremi-szaniawski/ Time Machines: After Kubrick: A Filmmaker's Legacy, edited by Jeremi Szaniawski · Senses of Cinema]{{cite journal | url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10509209009361343?journalCode=gqrf20 | doi=10.1080/10509209009361343 | title=An epilogue: Postmodern parody: History, subjectivity, and ideology | year=1990 | last1=Hutcheon | first1=Linda | journal=Quarterly Review of Film and Video | volume=12 | issue=1–2 | pages=125–133 | url-access=subscription }}[https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/3640-hiroshima-mon-amour-s-unforgettable-opening Hiroshima mon amour's Unforgettable Opening|Current|The Criterion Collection][https://cineaction.ca/current/horror-versus-terror-in-the-body-genre/ Horror versus Terror in the Body Genre | CINEACTION][https://wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu/exhibits/emile-de-antonio Emile de Antonio - Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research][https://aesthetics-online.org/page/WalleyDocumentary Lessons of Documentary: Reality, Representation, and Cinematic Expressivity - American Society For Aesthetics][https://mubi.com/specials/jim-henson MUBI Collection: BEING GREEN: JIM HENSON'S EARLY SHORTS|MUBI][http://www.thevisualist.org/2018/10/designers-in-context-film-advertising-and-modernism/ Designers in Context: Film, Advertising, and Modernism - The Visualist][https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/agn-s-varda-was-a-living-work-art-1198251/ Agnès Varda Was a Living Work of Art - The Hollywood Reporter][https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/691-eclipse-series-19-chantal-akerman-in-the-seventies Eclipse Series 19: Chantal Akerman in the Seventies|The Criterion Collection][https://www.criterion.com/films/28552-here-is-your-life Here Is Your Life (1966)|The Criterion Collection][https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2002/nov/08/artsfeatures Voyage into the unknown | Movies - The Guardian][https://www.criterion.com/films/28833-a-matter-of-life-and-death A Matter of Life and Death (1946)|The Criterion Collection][https://bampfa.org/program/hippie-modernism-cinema-and-counterculture Hippie Modernism: Cinema and Counterculture, 1964-1974 - BAMPFA][https://bampfa.org/event/theater-2-hippie-modernism-shorts Theater 2 Hippie Modernism Shorts - BAMPFA][https://eastbayexpress.com/hippie-modernism-the-struggle-for-utopia-at-the-berkeley-art-museum-2-1/ Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia At The Berkeley Art Museum | East Bay Express]

[https://bampfa.org/event/elegy-ecstasy-films-canyon-cinema Elegy to Ecstasy: Films from Canyon Cinema - BAMPFA][https://bampfa.org/event/festival-express Festival Express|BAMPFA][https://www.artforum.com/print/198202/vulgar-modernism-35630 Vulgar Modernism - Artfourm International][https://www.rem.routledge.com/articles/vulgar-modernism Vulgar Modernism - Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism]{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zyRIlJTkuQ4C&dq=vulgar+modernism&pg=PA171 |page=171 |title=Film Theory: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies |isbn=9780415259750 |last1=Simpson |first1=Philip |last2=Utterson |first2=Andrew |last3=Shepherdson |first3=Karen J. |year=2004 |publisher=Taylor & Francis }}[https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/five-films-influenced-jean-luc-godard/ Five films that influenced Jean-Luc Godard|Far Out Magazine][http://americancinemathequecalendar.com/content/ji%C5%99%C3%AD-trnka-shorts-mature-mastery Jiří Trnka Shorts: Mature Mastery | American Cinematheque][https://harvardfilmarchive.org/calendar/6062 The Czech Year - Harvard Film Archive]

{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eQmDDwAAQBAJ | title=Cartoon Vision: UPA Animation and Postwar Aesthetics | isbn=9780520298132 | last1=Bashara | first1=Dan | date=2 April 2019 | publisher=Univ of California Press }}[https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/global-animation-theory-international-perspectives-at-animafest-zagreb/ch11-animation-experienced-through-music Global Animation Theory - International Perspectives at Animafest Zagreb - Bloomsbury Collections]{{cite book |last1=Sollors |first1=Werner |title=Ethnic modernism |year=2008 |location=Cambridge, Mass. |isbn=9780674030916 |page=8 |edition=First Harvard University Press paperback |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DaXO7cSOS_cC}}{{cite book |last1=Murray |first1=Robin L. |title=That's all folks? : ecocritical readings of American animated features |date=2011 |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |location=Lincoln |isbn=9780803235120 |pages=85–89 }}[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xEi8qg266g&t=869s Why Do Movies Feel So Different Now? - Thomas Flight on YouTube][https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/film/six-facts-jean-luc-goddard-breathless-the-jump-b1025400.html Six facts about Jean-Luc Goddard – the godfather of modernist cinema|Evening Standard][https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/31/what-made-buster-keatons-comedy-so-modern-biography-james-curtis-dana-stevens What Made Buster Keaton’s Comedy So Modern?|The New Yorker][https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/and-walt-went-crazy 'And Walt Went Crazy' - Animation Obsessive][https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/aug/22/bubble-bath-review-hallucinogenic-animated-musical-is-a-work-of-70s-genius Bubble Bath review – hallucinogenic animated musical is a work of 70s genius|Movies|The Guardian][https://www.gyorgykovasznai.com/post/habf%C3%BCrd%C5%91-in-the-2020-2021-season-of-classic-films-catalogue Habfürdő in the 2020-2021 Season of Classic Films Catalogue|Gyorgy Kovasznai][https://www.criterion.com/films/31285-the-servant The Servant (1963)|The Criterion Collection][https://www.criterion.com/films/28111-la-notte La notte (1961)|The Criterion Collection][https://www.artforum.com/columns/j-hoberman-on-shuzo-azuchi-gullivers-cinematic-illumination-249107/ Hippie Medium - Artfourm][https://collections.libraries.indiana.edu/IULMIA/exhibits/show/nick-and-stephen-bosustow-film/united-productions-of-america- United Productions of America and Cartoon Modernism · Bosustow Family Film Collection · Indiana University Libraries Movie Image Archive][https://www.popmatters.com/12-totally-strange-animated-films 12 Totally Strange and Underseen Animated Films|PopMatters][https://www.meer.com/en/47944-modernist-cinema Modernist Cinema|Meer][https://www.thecollector.com/citizen-kane-greatest-film-all-time/ What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?|TheCollector][https://www.filminquiry.com/big-sleep-postmodern/ How THE BIG SLEEP Made Detectives Postmodern - Film Requiry][https://www.sylff.org/news_voices/17172/ Theories of Modernism in Cinema|Voices|Sylff Official Website][https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/jean-luc-godard-obituary/ Godard Was Cinema|The Nation][https://books.google.com/books?id=6zbpf_LFQ24C Post-War Modernist Cinema and Philosophy - Google Books][https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/early-anime-features-two-1960s-classics/ Early Anime Features: Two 1960s Classics|Cartoon Research]

See also

References

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External links

  • [https://www.sylff.org/news_voices/17172/ Theories of Modernism and Cinema]
  • [https://www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature/articles/cinema-and-modernism# Cinema and modernism - The British Library]
  • [https://nyupress.org/9780814762028/post-war-cinema-and-modernity/ Post-war Cinema and Modernity]

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