Futurist Cinema

Rossella Catanese is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Udine and at NYU Florence.

- Preface: Rossella Catanese, The Polyexpressive Symphony of Futurist Cinema [Section 1: Joyful Deformation Of The Universe] - Introduction: Giovanni Lista, The Poetics of Futurist Cinema - Paolo Bertetto, Speed and Dynamism. Futurism and the Soviet Cinematographic Avant-garde - Valentina Valente, Futurism and Film Theories. Manifesto of Futurist Cinema and Theories in Italy in the 1910-20s - Sabine Schrader, Film Aesthetics Without Film - Wanda Strauven, Hand Journeys: From Marinetti’s Tattilismo to Past and Present Touch Screens - Elisa Uffreduzzi, Dance and Futurism in Italian Silent Cinema - Antonio Saccoccio, Futurism and the Cinema in the ’10s: a Reinterpretation Starting From McLuhan - Giancarlo Carpi, The human in the fetish of the human: cuteness in Futurism cinema, literature and visual arts [Section 2: Daily Filmed Exercises Designed To Free Us From Logic] - Denis Lotti, Futurist Yambo on the Moon. From La colonia lunare to Un matrimonio interplanetario - Rossella Catanese, An Avant-Garde Heritage. ‘Vita futurista’ - Lucia Re, Thaïs: A Different Challenge to the Stars - Carolina Fernández Castrillo, Velocità (1917): From Futurist Simultaneity to Live Streaming Media - Rossella Catanese, ‘Velocità/Vitesse’: Filmed Dramas Of Objects And ‘Avant-garde Integrale’ - Francesca Veneziano, From Science to Marvelous: the Works on Mobility, Between Chronophotography and Contemporary Cinema [Section 3: Shopwindows Of Filmed Ideas, Events, Types, Objects] - Fernando Maramai, Chronology - Marcello Seregni, Filmography - Index - Authors’ biographies