Table of Contents

Preface

Visions of Grandeur by Ed Halter

Mickey Mouse Meets Rimbaud by Scott Hammen

The Cubist Cinema

Preface

Introduction by Daniel Robbins

1. Modern Painters Discover the Cinema

2. Film as Modern Art: Picasso, Survage, Kandinsky, Schönberg

3. The Abstract Film: Richter, Eggeling, and Ruttmann

4. Léger and the Film

5. La Roue, Cendrars and Gance

6. Léger, L'Herbier, and L'Inhumaine

7. Ballet Mécanique

8. Dulac and Seeber

9. The Avant-Garde Film and Its Public

Appendix: Shot Analysis of "Ballet Mécanique"

Index

Filmography

Acknowledgements