Abstract
After World War II was put out, the vanguard of North American cinema recast the meanings of the female body in subjects that placed a hitherto subdued genre in a prominent place, in accordance with the progress achieved in political and social areas. This is the context of emancipation from which we can extract Film #12: Heaven and Earth Magic, a Rosetta Stone that allows an understanding of Harry Smith’s mythopoeia, an examination of the artist's consciousness and his cultural affiliations and, specifically, the significance of the female body as a key part of North American avant-garde film in the twentieth century.
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