The realm of the earth: simultaneous broadcast and world politics in interwar cinema

Michael Cowan

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The realm of the earth: simultaneous broadcast and world politics in interwar cinema

Michael Cowan

Film Studies

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This article discusses intermedial relations between film and new technologies of broadcast—telegraph, radio and television—in interwar Europe, culminating in a reading of Abel Gance’s largely forgotten radio film La fin du monde (1931). It argues that efforts to reposition film in relation to the new technologies of broadcast helped to catalyze both new forms of montage and new understandings of film as a medium that might forge political communities on a world scale.

Original language	English
Article number	1033343ar
Journal	Intermédialités
Volume	23
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.7202/1033343ar
Publication status	Published - 28 Sept 2015

Keywords

Interwar film
Simultaneous broadcast
Abel Gance
Montage
World cinema
Political cinema
La Fin du Monde

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