Dada and Surrealist Film Book

"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? · Thomas Elsaesser. Léger's Ballet mécanique · 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'Âge 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.