Futurism and early cinema shared a fascination with dynamic movement and speed, presenting both as harbingers of an emerging new way of life and new aesthetic criteria. And the Futurists quickly latched on to cinema as a device with great potential to manipulate our perceptions in order to create a new world. In the edited collection Futurist Cinema, Rossella Catanese explores that conjunction, bringing in avant-garde artists and their manifestos to show how painters and other artists turned to cinema as a model for overcoming the inherently static nature of painting in order to rethink it for a new era.

Rossella Catanese is a researcher in Film Studies and Adjunct Professor of Italian Cinema and Society at Lorenzo de' Medici Institute in Florence.

- Preface: Rossella Catanese, The Polyexpressive Symphony of Futurist Cinema[Section 1: Joyful Deformation Of The Universe]- Introduction: Giovanni Lista, The Poetics of Futurist Cinema - Paolo Bertetto, Speed and Dynamism. Futurism and the Soviet Cinematographic Avant-garde - Valentina Valente, Futurism and Film Theories. Manifesto of Futurist Cinema and Theories in Italy in the 1910-20s - Sabine Schrader, Film Aesthetics Without Film- Wanda Strauven, Hand Journeys: From Marinetti’s Tattilismo to Past and Present Touch Screens - Elisa Uffreduzzi, Dance and Futurism in Italian Silent Cinema- Antonio Saccoccio, Futurism and the Cinema in the ’10s: a Reinterpretation Starting From McLuhan - Giancarlo Carpi, The human in the fetish of the human: cuteness in Futurism cinema, literature and visual arts [Section 2: Daily Filmed Exercises Designed To Free Us From Logic]- Denis Lotti, Futurist Yambo on the Moon. From La colonia lunare to Un matrimonio interplanetario - Rossella Catanese, An Avant-Garde Heritage. ‘Vita futurista’ - Lucia Re, Thaïs: A Different Challenge to the Stars - Carolina Fernández Castrillo, Velocità (1917): From Futurist Simultaneity to Live Streaming Media- Rossella Catanese, ‘Velocità/Vitesse’: Filmed Dramas Of Objects And ‘Avant-garde Integrale’ - Francesca Veneziano, From Science to Marvelous: the Works on Mobility, Between Chronophotography and Contemporary Cinema [Section 3: Shopwindows Of Filmed Ideas, Events, Types, Objects]- Fernando Maramai, Chronology- Marcello Seregni, Filmography - Index- Authors’ biographies