Shadow & Its Shadow Surrealist Writings on the Cinema

Name: Shadow & Its Shadow Surrealist Writings on the Cinema
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ISBN: 9780872863767

ISBN-10: 087286376X

ISBN-13: 9780872863767

Edition: 3rd 2000 (Revised)

Authors: Paul Hammond

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Here is a classic collection of writings by the Surrealists on their mad love of moviegoing. Forty-odd theoretical, polemical, and poetical essays document Surrealism's scandalous and nonreductive take on film. The essayists include such names as Breton, Aragon, Desnos, Dali, Bunuel, and Man Ray, as well as many of the less famous, though equally fascinating figures of the movement. Table of Contents:Available light / Paul Hammond Some surrealist advice / The Surrealist Group War letter / Jacques Vache On decor / Louis Aragon Cinema U.S.A. / Philippe Soupault Battlegrounds and commonplaces / Rene Crevel Against commercial cinema / Benjamin Peret Buster Keaton's College / Luis Bunuel …

Book details

List price: $19.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: City Lights Books
Publication date: 1/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 250
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Available light



Some surrealist advice


War letter



On decor



Cinema U.S.A.



Battlegrounds and commonplaces



Against commercial cinema



Buster Keaton's College



Abstract of a critical history of the cinema



The marvelous is popular



As in a wood



Picture palaces



Plan for a cinema at the bottom of a lake



The lights go up



Surrealism and cinema



Introduction to black-and-white magic



Crossing the bridge



Sorcery and cinema



The screen's prestige



Remarks on cinematic oneirism



The cinema, instrument of poetry



Malombra, aura of absolute love


Data toward the irrational enlargement of a film: The Shanghai Gesture


The film and I



Cinemage



Another kind of cinema



Intention and surprise



The ideal summa



Turkey broth and unlabeled love potions



The fantastic - the marvelous



Concerning King Kong



Larry Semon's message



Hands off love


Chaplin, the copper's nark



Manifesto of the Surrealists concerning L'Age d'or


Zaroff; or, The prosperities of vice



Eroticism



Eroticism = love



Au repas des guerrieres



Female x film = fetish



Mae Murray



"Enchanted wanderer": excerpt from a journey album for Hedy Lamarr



Iron in the wound



Pornographers and Co.



Selected films made by Surrealists


A parting shot