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Book Description
This groundbreaking collection of thirteen original essays analyzes connections between film and two highly influential twentieth-century movements. The essays, which comment on specific films and deal with theoretical and topical questions, are framed by a documentary section that includes a photographic reproduction of the manuscript scenario for Robert Desnos's and Man Ray's L'Etoile de mer, and an introduction by the editor that provides a cogent working model for the difference between Dada and Surrealist perspectives.
CONTENTS:
Introduction, Rudolf E. Kuenzli
Essays
Dada/Cinema? � Thomas Elsaesser.
L�ger's Ballet m�canique � Judi Freeman.
Anemic Vision in Duchamp: Cinema as Readymade � Dalia Judovitz.
Exploring the Discursive Field of the Surrealist Scenario Text � Richard Abel.
Benjamin Fondane's "Scenarii intournables," � Peter Christensen.
Slit Screen � David Wills.
Constellated Visions: Robert Desnos's and Man Ray's L'Etoile de mer � Inez Hedges.
The Image and the Spark: Dulac and Artaud Reviewed � Sandy Flitterman-Lewis.
Dali and Un Chien andalou: The Nature of a Collaboration � Haim Finkelstein.
Un Chien andalou: The Talking Cure � Stuart Liebman.
Between the Sign of the Scorpion and the Sign of the Cross: L'�ge d'or � Allen Weiss.
Documentary Surrealism: On Land without Bread � Tom Conley.
The Critical Grasp: Bunuelian Cinema and Its Critics � Linda Williams.
Documents
Robert Desnos's and Man Ray's Scenario for L'Etoile de mer
Bibliography.
About the Author
Rudolf E. Kuenzli is Director of the International Dada Archive and Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the University of Iowa.
Dada and Surrealist Film,Rudolf E. Kuenzli,The MIT Press,026261121X,Cinema/Film: Book,Dadaism in motion pictures,Film & Video - General,Film & Video - History & Criticism,Performing Arts,Pop Arts / Pop Culture,Special Subjects In Motion Pictures,Surrealism in motion pictures,Art / Fine Arts
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