Author Paul Fileri

Paul Fileri

Paul Fileri is a PhD candidate in Cinema Studies at New York University and a regular contributor to Film Comment. His research interests include the history of French cinema, the relationship between experimental and documentary film/video theory and practice, and the history of film studies and particular cultures of cinephilia.

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Moving Forward, Looking Back: The European Avant-garde and the Invention of Film Culture, 1919-1939 by Malte Hagener

July 2009

Malte Hagener’s Moving Forward, Looking Back: The European Avant-garde and the Invention of Film Culture, 1919-1939 offers a remarkably multifaceted and compelling historical study of the European cinematic ava...