Ojo TachadoThe Branded Eye offers a detailed analysis of the film, including its production background, Salvador Dali's influence in its making, biographical information on Bunuel, an annotated script of the film, shot-by-shot descriptions, and a complete film decoupage. |
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analysis Antonin Artaud Artaud articulation artistic avant-garde beginning Buñuel's film Camera turned 90 character Chien andalou cinema Close-up constitutes Continuation of shot cyclist Dadaism Dalí découpage defined diagonal stripes Dissolve door Dulac editing enters the frame explicit face film history film's filmic discourse filmmaker frills function Germaine Dulac high-angle shot images implied inscribed intertitle Land without Bread later literary logic Long medium shot Long shot looks Luis Buñuel lying man's hand Marist brothers meaning metaphor moves narrated narrative necktie notion object offscreen opening Photogram Pierre Batcheff poetic discourse point of view present produced razor reading reality reference relationship rope Salvador Dalí screen script Seashell seems segment sense sequence shooting Simone Mareuil slitting sound track specific spectator story structure subversive surrealism surrealist tango tango music textual space tion Un Chien andalou viewer Viridiana wears window woman's gaze young woman