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The author of this title is professor of French Literature and Visual Culture, Queen Mary, University of London. Her books include "Surrealist Collage in Text and Image" (1998) and "Surrealism: Crossings/Frontiers" (2006). Klappentext Takes fresh approaches to the film "Un chien andalou", exploring how it can be seen both within and beyond the confines of Surrealism and reviewing its openness to so many readings and interpretations. This book reassesses Dali and Bunuel's account of the film as a model surrealist work and its reception by the surrealist group.Takes fresh approaches to the film "Un chien andalou", exploring how it can be seen both within and beyond the confines of Surrealism and reviewing its openness to so many readings and interpretations. This book reassesses Dali and Bunuel's account of the film as a model surrealist work and its reception by the surrealist group. Zusammenfassung Takes fresh approaches to the film "Un chien andalou", exploring how it can be seen both within and beyond the confines of Surrealism and reviewing its openness to so many readings and interpretations. This book reassesses Dali and Bunuel's account of the film as a model surrealist work and its reception by the surrealist group.ContentsIllustrations Synopsis Introduction: It’s dangerous to look inside I Producing Un chien andalou: myths of origin From scenario to screen: a close collaboration Première and reception of Un chien andalouA surrealist film? II Romantic melodrama or magic theatre? Classic film narrative subvertedA cinema of attractionsPsychoanalytical readingsSymbols or material images?III Contexts and intertexts: between Fantômas and the fairground Spanish contextsSurrealist iconographyA parody of 1920s films Early cinema and fairground intertexts1920s social context: destabilizing gender rolesConclusion Credits Bibliography
