Dada and Surrealist Film

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?iuml;iquest;frac12; Thomas Elsaesser. Liuml;iquest;frac12;ger's Ballet miuml;iquest;frac12;caniqueiuml;iquest;frac12; Judi Freeman. Anemic Vision in Duchamp: Cinema as Readymadeiuml;iquest;frac12; Dalia Judovitz. Exploring the Discursive Field of the Surrealist Scenario Textiuml;iquest;frac12; Richard Abel. Benjamin Fondane's "Scenarii intournables,"iuml;iquest;frac12; Peter Christensen. Slit Screeniuml;iquest;frac12; David Wills. Constellated Visions: Robert Desnos's and Man Ray'sL'Etoile de mer iuml;iquest;frac12; Inez Hedges. The Image and the Spark: Dulac and Artaud Reviewediuml;iquest;frac12; Sandy Flitterman-Lewis. Dali and Un Chien andalou: The Nature of a Collaborationiuml;iquest;frac12; Haim Finkelstein. Un Chien andalou: The Talking Cureiuml;iquest;frac12; Stuart Liebman. Between the Sign of the Scorpion and the Sign of the Cross:L'iuml;iquest;frac12;ge d'or iuml;iquest;frac12; Allen Weiss. Documentary Surrealism: On Land without Breadiuml;iquest;frac12; Tom Conley. The Critical Grasp: Bunuelian Cinema and Its Criticsiuml;iquest;frac12; Linda Williams. Documents Robert Desnos's and Man Ray's Scenario for L'Etoile de mer Bibliography.

Rudolf Kuenzli is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director of the International Dada Archive at the University of Iowa.