Le mécanoïde et l'androïde: deux faces du mythe futuriste dans le cinéma d'avant-garde des années vingt

Authors
Publication date 2002
Journal Cinémas
Volume | Issue number 12 | 3
Pages (from-to) 33-51
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
Abstract This article examines the ways in which the Futurist adoration of the machine found expression in the cinema. Two tendencies are distinguished : first, that of the machine as machine, as a non-human invention that can become charged with symbolic meaning (from the eroticism of Charles Dekeukeleire’s Impatience to the proletarian revolution in S.M. Eisenstein’s Strike ) ; and second, that of the new machine as a new being with a human form which quickly becomes a threat to its creator.
Document type Article
Language French
Published at https://doi.org/10.7202/000734ar
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