Title Reframing reality : the aesthetics of the surrealist object in French and Czech cinema / Alison Frank ; Ellen Thomas, cover designer ; Jelena Stanovnik, production manager

Published Bristol, England ; Chicago, Illinois : Intellect, 2013 ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (218 pages) Contents Front Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Surrealist Objects and Cinema -- The notion of the surrealist object -- The hybrid object versus the surrealist object; cinema versus surrealism -- Objects in surrealist cinema: Un Chien andalou -- Chapter 2: Style and the Hybrid Object in À Nous la liberté -- Style in À Nous la liberté -- Object analysis -- Chapter 3: The Everyday and the Hybrid Object in the Czech New Wave and Jan Å vankmajer -- The context of a cultural renewal Czech surrealism from its beginnings to the 1960sCommon concerns of Czech surrealism and the Czech New Wave -- Hybrid objects and the Czech New Wave -- Hybrid objects and Jan Å vankmajerâ€?s short films of the 1960s -- Chapter 4: Genre and the Hybrid Object in Late BuÃ"uel -- Generic hybridity and subjectivity in the 1930s and 60s -- Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie -- Belle de Jour -- Cet obscur objet du désir -- Chapter 5: Media Objects in Le Fabuleux destin dâ€?Amélie Poulain -- Jean-Pierre Jeunet and René Clair -- Cinéma du look -- Postmodernism Media of expression and communication as objectsConclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 14, 2014) Subject Surrealism in motion pictures. Motion pictures -- Czech Republic -- History Motion pictures -- France -- History PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference. PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General Motion pictures Surrealism in motion pictures Czech Republic France Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Thomas, Ellen Stanovnik, Jelena ISBN 9781783201693 178320169X 9781783201686 1783201681

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