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An interesting new assessment of film and the Parisian art scene at the beginning of the century. -- K. S. Nolley CHOICE Wild's work [is] compelling, and so worthy of the fiercely anti-establishment avant-garde artists she studies. Film Quarterly ...Wild displays her impressive grasp of the scholarship of her period and of its key players and her considerable imaginative powers in reconstructing how cinema may have been experienced and responded to by the likes of Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia and Tristan Tzara in those first frantic years of the 20th century, when film had not yet been tamed to a dominant industrial pattern...It's a work of great intellectual fortitude. Sight and Sound

"""An interesting new assessment of film and the Parisian art scene at the beginning of the century."" -- K. S. Nolley CHOICE ""Wild's work [is] compelling, and so worthy of the fiercely anti-establishment avant-garde artists she studies."" Film Quarterly ""...Wild displays her impressive grasp of the scholarship of her period and of its key players and her considerable imaginative powers in reconstructing how cinema may have been experienced and responded to by the likes of Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia and Tristan Tzara in those first frantic years of the 20th century, when film had not yet been tamed to a dominant industrial pattern...It's a work of great intellectual fortitude."" Sight and Sound"

An interesting new assessment of film and the Parisian art scene at the beginning of the century. -- K. S. Nolley CHOICE

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Jennifer Wild is Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago.

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