Form and Meaning in Avant-Garde Collage and Montage

This book uses intermedial theories to study collage and montage, tracing the transformation of visual collage into photomontage in the early avant-garde period.

Autorentext
Magda Dragu is Visiting Scholar in the Department of Comparative Literature at Indiana University Bloomington, USA.

Inhalt

Part One: Theories of intermediality: form and meaning

1. The history

2. The theory

Part Two: Collage

3. A heterogeneous articulation of meaning: avant-garde visual and verbal collage

4. "The whole shebang!": musical collage and meaning

Part Three: From collage to montage

5. 'Transparent' replacements: visual collage and heterogeneous photomontage

6. Intermedial models: film montage and homogeneous photomontage

7. Chasing the 'greased pig' of meaning: literary and musical montage

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