Dada and Surrealist Film

Kuenzli has done film studies a service by gathering some of the best minds in the fields reflecting on specific topics. -- Andrew Horton, Film Quarterly A comprehensive, clear and factual presentation of the subject . . . very useful. -- Simonne Fischer, French Review 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? 7 Thomas Elsaesser. Liger`s Ballet micanique 7 Judi Freeman. Anemic Vision in Duchamp: Cinema as Readymade 7 Dalia Judovitz. Exploring the Discursive Field of the Surrealist Scenario Text 7 Richard Abel. Benjamin Fondane`s Scenarii intournables, 7 Peter Christensen. Slit Screen 7 David Wills. Constellated Visions: Robert Desnos`s and Man Ray`s L`Etoile de mer 7 Inez Hedges. The Image and the Spark: Dulac and Artaud Reviewed 7 Sandy Flitterman-Lewis. Dali and Un Chien andalou: The Nature of a Collaboration 7 Haim Finkelstein. Un Chien andalou: The Talking Cure 7 Stuart Liebman. Between the Sign of the Scorpion and the Sign of the Cross: L`Bge d`or 7 Allen Weiss. Documentary Surrealism: On Land without Bread 7 Tom Conley. The Critical Grasp: Bunuelian Cinema and Its Critics 7 Linda Williams. Documents Robert Desnos`s and Man Ray`s Scenario for L`Etoile de mer Bibliography. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.