Brings to light the links between animation, avant-garde art and modernist criticism. Focusing on the work of aesthetic and political revolutionaries of the inter-war period, reveals how the animation of commodities can be studied as a journey into modernity in cinema.
Walter Benjamin, critic, essayist, translator, philosopher one of the twentieth century's most influential intellectuals continues to intrigue. This book acknowledges Benjamin's thesis... Læs mere
Powerful new insights into a key twentieth-century political thinker