"The 1920s and 1930s saw the rise of the city symphony, an experimental film form that presented the city as protagonist instead of mere decor. Combining experimental, documentary, and narrative practices, these films were marked by a high level of abstraction reminiscent of high-modernist experiments in painting and photography. Moreover, interwar city symphonies presented a highly fragmented, oftentimes kaleidoscopic sense of modern li ..."
"The 1920s and 1930s saw the rise of the city symphony, an experimental film form that presented the city as protagonist instead of mere decor. Combining experimental, documentary, and narrative practices, these films were marked by a high level of abstraction reminiscent of high-modernist experiments in painting and photography. Moreover, interwar city symphonies presented a highly fragmented, oftentimes kaleidoscopic sense of modern li ..."
"Cinema, Art, and Urban Modernity Between the Wars Steven Jacobs, Eva
Hielscher, Anthony Kinik ... In the Amazon region, feature films and
documentaries focused on the production of rubber and the Amazon River. ... as
Rubens Machado Junior has demonstrated, the evocation of a metropolis in the
manner of New York or Berlin was also present in fiction films set in São Paulo,
such as Exemplo ... The film opens with the silence of dawn, ..."
Lost Highways, Embodied Travels The Road Movie in American Experimental Film and Video von Kornelia Boczkowska 290 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2023 von Brill ISBN-13: 978-90-04-53798-9, ISBN: 90-04-53798-8
Seeing Symphonically Avant-Garde Film, Urban Planning, and the Utopian Image of New York von Erica Stein 371 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2021 von State University Of New York Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4384-8664-2, ISBN: 1-4384-8664-2