The Unsilvered Screen: Surrealism on FilmGraeme Harper, Rob Stone Leading critics from the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Canada, and Japan offer fresh, provocative views of canonical Surrealist works from Luis Buñuel, Jan Svankmajer, and David Lynch. They also offer lively analyses of surrealist aspects of contemporary Japanese, Russian, and British cinema, Disney animation, digital cinema, and documentary, exploring the vibrant effect and considerable legacy of surrealism on film. |
Contents
The Visual Poetics of Surrealist Cinema | 9 |
The Persistence of Surrealism in Spanish Cinema | 23 |
Late Buñuel | 38 |
Surrealist Subtexts in Russian Film | 48 |
Genius Loci as a Source of Surrealist Inspiration | 60 |
The Appropriation and Incorporation of Popular Surrealism | 72 |
How Surrealism Saved Documentary from John Grierson | 90 |
The Strange Course of Surrealism in | 102 |
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