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Dada and surrealist film

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Rudolf Kuenzli
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MIT Press, 1996 - Performing Arts - 254 pages
"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?" 7 Thomas Elsaesser.
"Liger's Ballet micanique" 7 Judi Freeman.
"Anemic Vision in Duchamp: Cinema as Readymade" 7 Dalia Judovitz.
"Exploring the Discursive Field of the Surrealist Scenario Text" 7 Richard Abel.
"Benjamin Fondane's "Scenarii intournables, " 7 Peter Christensen.
"Slit Screen" 7 David Wills.
"Constellated Visions: Robert Desnos's and Man Ray's" L'Etoile de mer 7 Inez Hedges.
"The Image and the Spark: Dulac and Artaud Reviewed" 7 Sandy Flitterman-Lewis.
"Dali and Un Chien andalou: The Nature of a Collaboration" 7 Haim Finkelstein.
Un Chien andalou: "The Talking Cure" 7 Stuart Liebman.
"Between the Sign of the Scorpion and the Sign of the Cross: " L'Bge d'or 7 Allen Weiss.
"Documentary Surrealism: OnLand without Bread" 7 Tom Conley.
"The Critical Grasp: Bunuelian Cinema and Its Critics" 7 Linda Williams.

Documents

Robert Desnos's and Man Ray's Scenario for "L'Etoile de mer"
Bibliography.

  

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Review: Dada and Surrealist Film

User Review  - Tosh - Goodreads

This is a cool collection of essays by various writers (some are known to me, some are not) on the subject matter of DADA & Surrealist films. They cover the classics and the essays are well-written and thought out. And to be honest this is my type of cinema. The narrative... it only goes so far! Read full review

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Contents

Introduction
1
ESSAYS
13
Legers Ballet mecanique
28
Cinema as Readymade
46
Exploring the Discursive Field of the Surrealist
58
Benjamin Fondanes Scenarii intournables
72
Slit Screen
86
Robert Desnoss
99
Dulac and Artaud Reviewed
110
The Nature of a Collaboration
128
The Talking Cure
143
Between the Sign of the Scorpion and the Sign of
159
On Land without Bread
176
Bunuelian Cinema and Its Critics
199
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References from web pages

SUMMER SESSION II
Rudolf E. Kuenzli, Ed., Dada and Surrealist Film, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996. Mary Ann Caws, Ed., Surrealist Painters and Poets: an Anthology, ...
www.uic.edu/ depts/ arch/ ah/ 06_Spring_Syllabi/ AH%20207%20Leppanen.doc

Dada & Surrealism
Dada and Surrealist Film (New York: Willis Locker & Owens, 1987). ..... “Anemic Vision in Duchamp: Cinema as Readymade,” in Dada and Surrealist Film, 46-57. ...
pages.slc.edu/ ~jrodenbe/ current%20courses/ Dada.pdf

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"Exploring the Discursive Field of the Surrealist Scenario Text" in Dada and Surrealist Film. New York: Willis Locker & Owens, 1987. pp. 58-71. ...
www.srcs.nctu.edu.tw/ joyceliu/ Interart/ project3/ f-7ref.htm

Dada Between Heaven and Hell: Abstraction and Universal Language ...
Kuenzli, Introduction to Dada and Surrealist Film, ed. Rudolf Kuenzli (Cambridge ... 1; Thomas Elsaesser, “Dada/Cinema?,” in Dada and Surrealist Film, p. ...
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Examination/Desk Copy Request - The MIT Press
Dada and Surrealist Film. August 1996 6 x 9, 254 pp., 18 illus. ... This form will allow you to request a copy of Dada and Surrealist Film, edited by Rudolf ...
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Resonance Dorf Dada notes
Rudolf E. Kuenzli, introduction to Dada and Surrealist Film (Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: ... in Dada and Surrealist Film, ed. by Kuenzli, 20. 19. ...
www.usc.edu/ libraries/ partners/ resonance/ 2006/ Spring/ Dorf/ notes.html

Blackwell Synergy - J Comp Mediated Comm, Volume 5 Issue 4 Page 0 ...
In R. Kuenzli, (Ed.), Dada and Surrealist Film (pp. 58–71). New York. : Willis Locker & Owens. •. Aitken, I. (1998). Distraction and redemption: Kracauer, ...
www.blackwell-synergy.com/ doi/ abs/ 10.1111/ j.1083-6101.2000.tb00353.x

Luis Buñuel’s Land Without Bread : The critics and the contexts
Dada and Surrealist Film, New York: Willis Locker & Owens,. pp. 176–98. Durgnat, R. ([1967] 1977), Luis Buñuel, Berkeley: University of California Press. ...
www.atypon-link.com/ INT/ doi/ pdf/ 10.1386/ sdf.1.2.137_1

Luis Buñuel: A Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Libraries
In Dada and Surrealist Film. Edited by Rudolf E. Kuenzli, pp.199-206. New York: Willis, Locker & Owens, c1987. Main Stack PN1995.9.S85. ...
www.lib.berkeley.edu/ MRC/ Bunuelbib.html

Essay Titles & Bibliographies
Rudolf Kuenzli, Dada and surrealist film , Cambridge : MIT, 1996. John Matthews, (Herbert), Surrealism and film , (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ...
www.filmstudies.llc.ed.ac.uk/ EssayTitlesBibliographies.htm

About the author (1996)

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

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TitleDada and surrealist film
EditorRudolf Kuenzli
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherMIT Press, 1996
ISBN026261121X, 9780262611213
Length254 pages
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