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Book Dal    Surrealism and Cinema

Download or read book Dal Surrealism and Cinema written by Elliott H. King and published by No Exit Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salvador Dali was one of the most recognised and controversial artists of the 20th century. He was also an avant-garde filmmaker, collaborating with giants such as Luis Bunuel, Walt Disney and Alfred Hitchcock. King surveys the full range of Dali's eccentric activities within the cinema. Influenced by the Marx Brothers, Buster Keaton and Stanley Kubrick, Dali used cinema to bring the dream subjects of his paintings to life, providing the groundwork for revolutionary forays into television, video, photography and holography. Includes a free DVD with examples of his work.

Book Surrealism and Cinema

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  • Author : Michael Richardson
  • Publisher : Berg
  • Release : 2006-03
  • ISBN : 1845202260
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book Surrealism and Cinema written by Michael Richardson and published by Berg. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the work of Luis Buänuel, Jacques Prâevert, Nelly Kaplan, Walerian Borowcyzk, Jan Svankmajer, Raul Ruiz and Alejandro Jodorowsky, this work charts the history of surrealist film-making in both Europe and Hollywood from the 1920s to 2005.

Book Surrealism  Cinema  and the Search for a New Myth

Download or read book Surrealism Cinema and the Search for a New Myth written by Kristoffer Noheden and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines post-war surrealist cinema in relation to surrealism’s change in direction towards myth and magic following World War II. Intermedial and interdisciplinary, the book unites cinema studies with art history and the study of Western esotericism, closely engaging with a wide range of primary sources, including surrealist journals, art, exhibitions, and writings. Kristoffer Noheden looks to the Danish surrealist artist Wilhelm Freddie’s forays into the experimental short film, the French poet Benjamin Péret’s contribution to the documentary film L’Invention du monde, the Argentinean-born filmmaker Nelly Kaplan’s feature films, and the Czech animator Jan Svankmajer’s work in short and feature films. The book traces a continuous engagement with myth and magic throughout these films, uncovering a previously unknown strain of occult imagery in surrealist cinema. It broadens the scope of the study of not only surrealist cinema, but of surrealism across the art forms. Surrealism, Cinema, and the Search for a New Myth will appeal to film scholars, art historians, and those interested in the impact of occultism on modern culture, film, and the arts.

Book A Surrealism of the Movies

Download or read book A Surrealism of the Movies written by William Earle and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Surrealism in Film

Download or read book Surrealism in Film written by William Earle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The arts were created from an appeal to freedom. There can be no general aesthetic that defines how that freedom must express itself. Movies offer a seductive example. Of all the major arts, cinema is the only one that was invented during the lifetime of some who are now living. From this perspective, Earle argues that filmmakers were far more inventive in their early days than now, when commercial film has settled into a realist routine with occasional and timid forays into the personal and imaginative.Earle suggests that unsympathetic readers should look again at the possible sources of film poetry, sources that have almost dried up in the flood of boredom experienced nightly in theaters throughout the world. Surrealism in Film is largely a manifesto against realism; it ends in a clash of sensibilities. The book encourages new exploration of absolute poetry.The intention of these essays is to destroy the absolute authority of the realist sensibility. Within that sensibility is everything thought necessary to "sense": narrative plot, recognizable and nameable passions, continuity and integration within the film, a gist or moral for the whole affair, social commentary, and psychoanalytic depth-meanings. Earle argues for a self-critique that should be performed if movies are not to remain encapsulated within its own delusions.

Book Surrealism and film after 1945

Download or read book Surrealism and film after 1945 written by Kristoffer Noheden and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume to focus on the diverse permutations of international surrealist cinema after the canonical interwar period. The collection features eleven original contributions by prominent scholars such as Tom Gunning, Michael Löwy, Gavin Parkinson and Michael Richardson, alongside other leading and emerging researchers. An introductory chapter offers a historical overview as well as a theoretical framework for specific methodological approaches. The collection demonstrates that renowned figures such as Leonora Carrington, Maya Deren, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Jan Švankmajer took part in shaping a vibrant and distinctive surrealist film culture following the Second World War. Addressing highly influential films and directors related to international surrealism during the second half of the twentieth century, it expands the purview of both surrealism and film studies by situating surrealism as a major force in postwar cinema.

Book The Age of Gold

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  • Author : Robert Short
  • Publisher : Solar Film Directives
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 214 pages

Download or read book The Age of Gold written by Robert Short and published by Solar Film Directives. This book was released on 2008 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surrealist cinema, as epitomised by Un Chien Andalou and L'Age D'Or, was a knife through the very heart of the establishment - a scorpionic, scatological black joke galvanised by the irrational, the uncanny and the spectre of de Sade. Author Robert Short revisits these two seminal films and documents the experimental cinematic theories of Antonin Artaud and the filming of his Surrealist scenario The Seashell and the Clergyman. Short also looks at the work of Hans Richter, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray.

Book Dada and Surrealist Film

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  • Author : Rudolf E. Kuenzli
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 1996-07-29
  • ISBN : 9780262611213
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Dada and Surrealist Film written by Rudolf E. Kuenzli and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1996-07-29 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking collection of thirteen original essays analyzes connections between film and two highly influential twentieth-century movements.

Book DADA  Surrealism  and the Cinematic Effect

Download or read book DADA Surrealism and the Cinematic Effect written by R. Bruce Elder and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the early intellectual reception of the cinema and the manner in which art theorists, philosophers, cultural theorists, and especially artists of the first decades of the twentieth century responded to its advent. While the idea persists that early writers on film were troubled by the cinema’s lowly form, this work proposes that there was another, largely unrecognized, strain in the reception of it. Far from anxious about film’s provenance in popular entertainment, some writers and artists proclaimed that the cinema was the most important art for the moderns, as it exemplified the vibrancy of contemporary life. This view of the cinema was especially common among those whose commitments were to advanced artistic practices. Their notions about how to recast the art media (or the forms forged from those media’s materials) and the urgency of doing so formed the principal part of the conceptual core of the artistic programs advanced by the vanguard art movements of the first half of the twentieth century. This book, a companion to the author’s previous, Harmony & Dissent, examines the Dada and Surrealist movements as responses to the advent of the cinema.

Book The Unsilvered Screen

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  • Author : Graeme Harper
  • Publisher : Wallflower Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9781904764861
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book The Unsilvered Screen written by Graeme Harper and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critics from the UK, US, Australia, Canada and Japan discuss views on canonical surrealist works , and the role of surrealism in modern cinema, animation, digital cinema and documentary.

Book The Shadow and Its Shadow

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  • Author : Paul Hammond
  • Publisher : City Lights Books
  • Release : 2000-11
  • ISBN : 9780872863767
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book The Shadow and Its Shadow written by Paul Hammond and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shadow and Its Shadow is a classic collection of writings by the Surrealists on their mad love of moviegoing. The forty-odd theoretical, polemical, and poetical re-visions of the seventh art in this anthology document Surrealism's scandalous and nonreductive take on film. Writing between 1918 and 1977, the essayists include such names as Andréeacute; Breton, Louis Aragon, Robert Desnos, Salvador Dalíiacute;, Luis Buñntilde;uel, and man Ray, as well as many of the less famous though equally fascinating figures of the movement. Paul Hammond's introduction limns the history of Surrealist cinemania, highlighting how these revolutionary poets, artists, and philosophers sifted the silt of commercial-often Hollywood-cinema for the odd fleck of gold, the windfall movie that, somehow slipping past the censor, questioned the dominant order. Such prospecting pivoted around the notion of lyrical behavior-as depicted on the screen and as lived in the movie house. The representation of such behavior led the Surrealists to valorize the manifest content of such denigrated genres as silent and sound comedy, romantic melodrama, film noir, horror movies. As to lived experience, moviegoing Surrealists looked to the spectacle's latent meaning, reading films as the unwitting providers of redemptive sequences that could be mentally clipped out of their narrative context and inserted into daily life-there, to provoke new adventures. "Hammond's book is a reminder of the wealth and range of surrealist writings on the cinema. . . . [T]he work represented here is still challenging and genuinely eccentric, locating itself in an 'ethic' of love, reverie and revolt." --Sight & Sound "Hammond, who is the author of the invaluable anthology The Shadow and its Shadow: Surrealist Writing on the Cinema (1978), writes about cinema independently of the changing academic and cultural fashions of film theory and abhors the dogmas of contemporary border-patrol thought. His magnetically appealing free-wheeling form of erudite film-critical writing is recognisable for its iconoclastic humour, non-authoritarian verve and playful witty discursivity." --John Conomos, Senses of Cinema Paul Hammond is a writer, editor, and translator living in Barcelona. He is the author of Constellations of Miróoacute;, Breton which was published by City Lights.

Book Figures of Desire

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  • Author : Linda Williams
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1992-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780520078963
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Figures of Desire written by Linda Williams and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An important contribution to film theory. . . . Williams has a fluid, assured style. She is clearly in command of the subject. She's made a strong and original argument for the psychoanalytic basis of Surrealism."--James Monaco, author of The New Wave

Book From Enchantment to Rage

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  • Author : Steven Kovács
  • Publisher : Rutherford, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Toronto : Associated University Presses
  • Release : 1980
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book From Enchantment to Rage written by Steven Kovács and published by Rutherford, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Toronto : Associated University Presses. This book was released on 1980 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Age of Gold

Download or read book The Age of Gold written by Robert Short and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Surrealism and Film

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  • Author : J. H. Matthews
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Surrealism and Film written by J. H. Matthews and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Companion to Spanish Surrealism

Download or read book Companion to Spanish Surrealism written by Robert Havard and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive introduction to Surrealism in Spain, with focus on poetry, art, drama and film.

Book Surrealism  Theater  Arts  Ideas

Download or read book Surrealism Theater Arts Ideas written by Nahma Sandrow and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: