The urban machinism translated to celluloid (1925-1936)
Keywords:
modern time’s phenomena, history of the cities, history of the cinema, history of the body, industrial society.
Abstract
Industrial metropolises have become an unprecedented synchronization phenomenon, which has been capable of captivating the imagination and influencing the culture of large city dwellers. As a result, the cinema also ended up reflecting the social awareness of the industrial metropolis as a novelty. The machine metaphors that it generated were meant to convey all the urban synchronicity through the celluloid film, whether apologetically or critically. Underlying those new outlooks on urban life, there was a legitimate sense of awe before everything that was unknown and unprecedented about the daily events taking place in a metropolis. This study aims to identify the presence of the discourse of machinism dedicated to big cities in films of the interwar period.Downloads
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Published
2012-09-17
How to Cite
Ferla L. (2012). The urban machinism translated to celluloid (1925-1936). Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea, 34, 207-224. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_CHCO.2012.v34.40068
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