The unsilvered screen : surrealism on film

Harper, Graeme. (Added Author). Stone, Rob, 1965- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9781904764878
ISBN: 9781904764861 (pbk.)
ISBN: 1904764878
ISBN: 190476486X (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
x, 179 p. ; 25 cm.
Publisher: London : Wallflower Press, c2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-176) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction, Unsilvered screen / Graeme Harper & Rob Stone -- From ready-made to moving image : the visual poetics of surrealist cinema / Ramona Fotiade -- Eye to eye : the persistence of surrealism in Spanish cinema / Rob Stone -- Amour still fou : Late Buñuel / Peter William Evans -- Nightmare as phantasmagoria : surrealist subtexts in Russian film / David Gillespie -- Jan Švankmajer : genius loci as a source of surrealist inspiration / Jan Uhde -- 'Interior logic' : the appropriation and incorporation of popular surrealism into classical American animation / Van Norris -- Soluble fish : how surrealism saved documentary from John Grierson / Graham Roberts -- Occasional eccentricity : the strange course of surrealism in British cinema / Andrew Spicer -- Untamed eye and the dark side of surrealism : Hitchcock, Lynch and Cronenberg / Barbara Creed -- Japanising the dark side : surrealism in Japanese film / Mark Schilling -- Emobilism and new 'film' : surrealism in the post-digital age / Graeme Harper -- Postscript : the impossible cinema of Marcel Broodthaers / Bruce Jenkins.