Autore
Fincardi, Marco

Titolo
Grattacieli nel cinema muto
Periodico
Memoria e ricerca
Anno: 2020 - Volume: 64 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 331 - Pagina finale: 346

Since the end of the 19th century, the image of the developmentof metropolises has been linked to the construction of modern towers. In the 1920s,in particular the cinema of the artistic avant-garde had a strong focus on the image of the metropolis,while the United States of America prevailed on a planetary level and imposed theimage of New York as the main planetary center of modernity, often symbolically representedwith the image of skyscrapers. The comparison between European and American cinema in thesilent films of that decade inevitably had to confront this symbolism, still located in the islandof Manhattan.



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