contents

illustrations

preface

acknowledgments

part one

  introduction: the city symphony phenomenon 1920–40

steven jacobs, anthony kinik, and eva hielscher

part two

1. lászló moholy-nagy and the city (symphony)

malte hagener

2. productive city: ruttmann’s düsseldorf: kleiner film einer großen stadt

michael cowan

3. minor paris city symphonies

christa blümlinger

4. kaufman and kopalin’s moscow

malcolm turvey

5. a parisian in manhattan: florey’s skyscraper symphony

merrill schleier

6. d’errico’s stramilano

john david rhodes

7. belgian variations on the city symphony theme

steven jacobs

8. koelinga’s de steeg: palimpsest and parallax historiography

ivo blom

9. schuitema’s de maasbruggen: city and film as a process

floris paalman

10. von barsy and von maydell’s de stad die nooit rust: a port city symphony

eva hielscher

11. hauser’s weltstadt in flegeljahren: an americanist city symphony

eva hielscher

12. one-way street: conrad’s halsted street

tom gunning

13. leyda’s a bronx morning

jan-christopher horak

14. kemeny and lustig’s são paulo: sinfonia da metrópole

cristina meneguello

15. sparling’s canadian city symphonies

anthony kinik

16. steiner and van dyke’s the city

anthony kinik

part three

survey of city symphonies 1920–40

eva hielscher, steven jacobs, and anthony kinik

- manhatta (charles sheeler and paul strand, 1921)

- jeux des reflets et de la vitesse (henri chomette, 1925)

- rien que les heures (alberto cavalcanti, 1926)

- moskva (mikhail kaufman and ilya kopalin, 1926)

- berlin. die sinfonie der grosstadt (walter ruttmann, 1927)

- twenty-four dollar island (robert flaherty, 1927)

- études des mouvements à paris (joris ivens, 1927)

- de brug (joris ivens, 1928)

- de stad die nooit rust (friedrich von maydell and andor von barsy, 1928)

- praha v záři světel (svatopluk innemann, 1928)

- shankhaiskii dokument (yakov bliokh, 1928)

- sinfonia de cataguases (humberto mauro, 1928)

- visages de paris (rené moreau, 1928)

- paris express ou souvenirs de paris (marcel duhamel and pierre prévert, 1928)

- études sur paris (andré sauvage, 1928)

- la zone: au pays des chiffonniers (georges lacombe, 1928)

- les halles (boris kaufman and andré galitzine, 1927 or 1929)

- harmonies de paris (lucie derain, 1929)

- vingt-quatre heures en trente minutes (jean lods and boris kaufman, 1929)

- champs-élysées (jean lods, 1929)

- les nuits électriques (eugène deslaw, 1929)

- nogent: el dorado du dimanche (marcel carné, 1929)

- impressionen vom alten marseiller hafen (vieux port) (lászló moholy-nagy, 1929)

- markt in berlin (wilfried basse, 1929)

- mit der pferdedroschke durch berlin (carl froelich, 1929)

- impressionen der großstadt (alex strasser, 1929)

- prater (friedrich kuplent, 1929)

- chelovek s kinoapparatom (dziga vertov, 1929)

- vesnoy (mikhail kaufman, 1929)

- regen (joris ivens and mannus franken, 1929)

- hoogstraat (andor von barsy, 1929)

- images d’ostende (henri storck, 1929)

- midi (lucien backman, 1929)

- kermesse flamande (carlo queeckers, 1929)

- stramilano (corrado d’errico, 1929)

- a day in liverpool (anson dyer, 1929)

- skyscraper symphony (robert florey, 1929)

- symphony of the rebuilding of the imperial metropolis (tokyo institute for municipal research, 1929)

- são paulo: a symphonia da metrópole (adalberto kemeny and rudolpho rex lustig, 1929)

- lisbôa: cronica anedótica (josé leitão de barros, 1930)

- esencia de verbena (ernesto giménez caballero, 1930)

- à propos de nice (jean vigo, 1930)

- montparnasse (eugène deslaw, 1930)

- menschen am sonntag (robert siodmak and edgar g. ulmer, 1930)

- a city symphony (herman weinberg, 1930)

- aimless walk (alexandr hackenschmied, 1930)

- douro, faina fluvial (manoel de oliveira, 1931)

- weltstadt in flegeljahren: ein bericht über chicago (heinrich hauser, 1931)

- manhattan medley (bonney powell, 1931)

- city of contrasts (irving browning, 1931)

- a bronx morning (jay leyda, 1931)

- a day in santa fe (lynn riggs and james hughes, 1931)

- gamla stan (stig almqvist, erik asklund, eyvind johnson, and artur lundkvist, 1931)

- pierement (jan teunissen, 1931)

- de steeg (jan koelinga, 1932)

- visions de lourdes (charles dekeukeleire, 1932)

- berliner stilleben (lászló moholy-nagy, 1932)

- großstadt-zigeuner (lászló moholy-nagy, 1932)

- na pražském hradě (alexandr hackenschmied, 1932)

- beograd prestonica kraljevine jugoslavije (vojin djordjević, 1932)

- ritmi di stazione (corrado d’errico, 1933)

- mediolanum (ubaldo magnaghi, 1933)

- london medley (1933)

- autumn fire (herman weinberg, 1933)

- footnote to fact (lewis jacobs, 1933)

- chi sheyingji de nanren (liu na’ou, 1933)

- žijeme v praze (otakar vávra, 1934)

- halsted street (conrad friberg, 1934)

- rhapsody in two languages (gordon sparling, 1934)

- another day (leslie p. thatcher, 1934)

- the westminster of the west (gordon sparling, 1934)

- city of towers (gordon sparling, 1935)

- vibracion de granada (josé val del omar, 1935)

- budapest: city of baths (istván somkúti, 1935)

- odessa (jean lods, 1935)

- stuttgart: die großstadt zwischen wald und reben (walter ruttmann, 1935)

- kleiner film einer großen stadt… der stadt düsseldorf am rhein (walter ruttmann, 1935)

- vancouver vignette (gordon sparling, 1936)

- así nació el obelisco (horacio coppola, 1936)

- de maasbruggen (paul schuitema, 1937)

- seeing the world (rudy burckhardt, 1937)

- weltstrasse see, welthafen hamburg (walter ruttmann, 1938)

- herää helsinki! (valentin vaala, 1939)

- the city (ralph steiner and willard van dyke, 1939)

- pursuit of happiness (rudy burckhardt, 1940)

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