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Walter Ruttmann, The Avant-Garde Film, and Nazi Modernism
- Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies
- Center for the Study of Film and History
- Volume 14, Number 2, May 1984
- pp. 26-46
- 10.1353/flm.1984.a402270
- Article
- Additional Information
A close analysis of the work of Walter Ruttmann shows how the concern of the avant-garde for visual culture and the quest for a purely filmic mode of expression reached fulfillment in Nazi propaganda.