Hvar City Theatre Days, Vol. 34 No. 1, 2008.
Original scientific paper
The Dramatic Structures of the first Film Synopses
Branka Brlenić-Vujić
; Faculty of philosophy in Osijek
Abstract
The similarities in theme, motivation and style between Vojnović’s Lady with Sunflower (1912) and the original film synopsis of Walter Hasenclever entitled Die Hochzeitsnacht, Ein Film in drei Akten, Das Kinobuch, 1914 shows the poetic, cultural and historical marks of innovative procedures within the historical culture of the avant-garde that marked the 1900s. The discovery of the structure of the great city as novelty opened up a poetic space for the new medium. Film with its aesthetic of simultanism and the dynamism of urban life and its filmic features undoubtedly affected the literature of the time stylistically labelled Kino der Seele (Kurt Pinthus).
In 1912, preceding original Expressionist film synopses (Das Kinobuch, 1914, ed. Kurt Pintus), Ivo Vojnović had already established the principles of Kinostil within the big-city mentality in a slight tale, an original film synopsis. As a German text it might well have entered Pinthus’s book, the first collected set of original film synopses, which were at one and the same time Expressionist film, filmic theatre and avant-garde narrative cinema.
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72898
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Publication date:
2.5.2008.
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