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Title

Dada and surrealist film / edited by Rudolf E. Kuenzli.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

Kuenzli, Rudolf E.

Description

254 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

This collection of 13 essays analyzes connections between film and the dada and surrealist movements. The essays are framed by a documentary section that includes a photographic reproduction of the manuscript scenario for Robert Desno's and Man Ray's "L'Etoile de mer."

Subject

• Surrealism in motion pictures
• Dadaism in motion pictures

Note

• Originally published: New York : Willis, Locker & Owens, c1987.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-254).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Rudolf E. Kuenzli -- I. Essays. Dada/Cinema? / Thomas Elsaesser. Leger's Ballet mecanique / 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'Age d'or / Allen Weiss. Documentary Surrealism: On Land without Bread / Tom Conley. The Critical Grasp: Bunuelian Cinema and Its Critics / Linda Williams -- II. Documents. Robert Desnos's and Man Ray's Scenario for L'Etoile de mer -- III. Bibliography on Dada and Surrealist Film.

ISBN

026261121X (pbk. : alk. )

LCCN

^^^96015843^

OCLC

• 34544763
• SCSB-10554208

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library