Titolo Rivista:  STORIA URBANA

Autori/Curatori: Claudia Lamberti

Anno di pubblicazione: 2009 Fascicolo: 122 Lingua: IT
Numero pagine: 21 Dimensione file: 5002 KB
DOI: 10.3280/SU2009-122003
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Presentazione:
The Expressionist city: film sets - The essay compares the images of the city defined by the Expressionist movement and the city images in the films of the time. Expressionist architects discovered that film-set design gave them a chance to experiment with their artistic skills. At the same time, film studios could not shoot outdoors easily and so were forced to rely on constructed sets. All this worked out as an incentive for architectural invention. Sets became an apt proving ground for the new expressiveness of the architects as well as a way to experiment with the use of space without limits and constraints. This essay examines the cases of 6 films whose elements are specifically and directly attributable to the Expressionist culture. Here the case of the city encompasses both set design and the urban atmosphere in films linked with the avant-garde movements. The essay also provides a filmography of the most important films with urban settings shot by German artists in the 1920s and 1930s.