Reframing Reality: the Aesthetics of the Surrealist Object in French and Czech Cinema

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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 Švankmajer; The context of a cultural renewal; Czech surrealism from its beginnings to the 1960s. 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 Švankmajer The context of a cultural renewal Czech surrealism from its beginnings to the 1960s. Common concerns of Czech surrealism and the Czech New WaveHybrid objects and the Czech New Wave Hybrid objects and Jan Švankmajer's short films of the 1960s Chapter 4: Genre and the Hybrid Object in Late Buñuel 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 d'Amélie Poulain Jean-Pierre Jeunet and René Clair Cinéma du look Postmodernism Media of expression and communication as objects Conclusion Bibliography Index Back Page.