"Film by Design considers visual media, and particularly film, as a crucial link in the Bauhaus's visionary pursuit of integrating art and technology"--

Series Foreword xi
Prologue xiii
Introduction: The Promises of Film 1
1 "Film, Film, Film!": Motion Studies on Bauhaus Screens 21
2 The Cinema, the Laboratory, the Workshop: Situating Film at the Bauhaus 57
3 Malleable Materials: Celluloid and Cellophane in the Preliminary Course 79
4 Synesthetic Architectures: On Lightplays, Film Projection, and Sensory Stages 109
5 Textile Screens: On Weaving and Cellophane 145
6 Woman with a Camera: Body, Gender, and Visual Media 171
7 Modules in Motion: Filmstrips across the Bauhaus 203
8 Toward the Process Image: On the Cinematic Logic of Exhibition Design 235
Epilogue: Variations on a Polymedium 281
Notes 301
Bibliography 351
Index 383