John London 
One Hundred Years of Futurism [EPUB ebook] 
Aesthetics, Politics and Performance

Contents

List of Illustrations

Notes on the Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Futurism, Anti-Futurism, and the Forgotten Century

John London

Aesthetics and Politics

Chapter 1: Geographies of Futurism: Mapping the First Avant-garde

Andreas Kramer

Chapter 2: Intersecting Planes: Futurism, Fascism, and Gramsci

James Martin

Chapter 3: Translating Futurism: Moving Possibilities

John London

Chapter 4: Twenty-First-Century Women Drivers – Futurism’s Unlikely

Successors: Gender Constructions, B-Movies, and Futurism

Ricarda Vidal

Performance

Forward is Forewarned: On Practitioners’ Perspectives

John London

Chapter 5: Staging Futurism: Time, Space, Place, Pace, and the Performance

of Futurist Sintesi

Gordon Ramsay

Chapter 6: Writing Futurist Drama in 2009: A Futurist Doll’s House

John London

Chapter 7: The Possibilities for Dance: Words, Images, and Sounds in Freedom

Rebecca Frecknall

Chapter 8: W−I−F + V−I−F = EF

Abi Weaver

Chapter 9: Depero and the Puzzle of Colours

Luke Allder

Chapter 10: Sound-singing Carlo Carrà

Lawrence Upton

Chapter 11: Recipe for a Futurist Dinner

Andrea Cusumano and Giuseppe Lomeo

Bibliography

Index

John London is professor of Hispanic studies and director of the Centre for Catalan Studies at Queen Mary University of London. His books include Reception and Renewal in Modern Spanish Theatre (Routledge, 1997), Contextos de Joan Brossa (Publicacions i Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, 2010), and the edited volumes Theatre under the Nazis (Manchester University Press, 2000) and One Hundred Years of Futurism (Intellect, 2017). He co-edited (with David George), Contemporary Catalan Theatre (Anglo-Catalan Society Occasional Publications, 1996) and Modern Catalan Plays (Methuen Drama, 2000), and (with Gabriel Sansano), Acting Funny on the Catalan Stage (Peter Lang, 2022). He is the editor of Hispanic Research Journal.
Contact: Centre for Catalan Studies, School of Languages, Linguistics and Film, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK.