This special issue of Cinéma&Cie aims at pushing the discussion on the relationships between avant-garde arts and popular culture far beyond traditional scholarship on the topic, stressing the concept of cultural history more than the specificity of film, media and music histories. By adopting a global perspective, the authors will elaborate useful analytical and theoretical tools to re-assess the “avantpop connection” as a dynamics of two-way exchanges across several artistic and media domains and different geographical and historical contexts.

Simone Dotto, François Mouillot and Maria Teresa Soldani:
Avant into Pop, Pop into Avant. Interplays between Music and Visual Media

Marie Sophie Beckmann:
It wasn’t…pristine: (Re-)visiting the New York Film Festival Downtown

Francesco Spampinato:
Cathode Mamma: Post-punk and Television in Italy.

Donal Fullam:
The Avant-Garde Roots of Video Game Music and Algorithmic Culture.

Sandra Lischi and Matias Guerra:
Imaginary Video Landscape: John Cage, Mugam Music, Video Art.

Gauri Nori:
Tuning into the Radio in Experimental Films from India.

Runchao Liu:
Visions of China: Avant-Orientalism, Art Rock, and Conflicted Otherness.

BEYOND CINEMA

Ana Ramos:
Vertov et la Perception-caméra

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Cinéma&Cie XIX,33 (Fall 2019 [2020]):
"Avant-garde and Popular Forms Between Music and Visual Media: Transhistorical and Intermedial Investigations".
Ed. by Simone Dotto, François Mouillot, & Maria Teresa Soldani.
Sesto San Giovanni (MI): Mimesis International, 2020, 160 p.
ISBN 9788869772962 (pb., EUR 18,00)