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Anemic Cinema (1926) By Mitchell, Ryan Robert

DOI: 10.4324/9781135000356-REM1691-1
Published: 01/10/2017
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Considered one of the important experimental films of the prewar European avant-garde, Anemic Cinema (1926) is a short experimental film by Marcel Duchamp, who authored the film under his pseudonym Rrose Sélavy.

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Mitchell, Ryan Robert. "Anemic Cinema (1926)." The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. : Taylor and Francis, 2016. Date Accessed 1 Apr. 2023 https://www.rem.routledge.com/articles/anemic-cinema-1926. doi:10.4324/9781135000356-REM1691-1

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