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Author:   Elza Adamowicz
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.159kg
ISBN:  

9781848850569

ISBN 10:   1848850565
Pages:   120
Publication Date:   30 January 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents Illustrations Synopsis Introduction: It's dangerous to look inside I Producing Un chien andalou: myths of origin From scenario to screen: a close collaboration Premiere and reception of Un chien andalou A surrealist film? II Romantic melodrama or magic theatre? Classic film narrative subverted A cinema of attractions Psychoanalytical readings Symbols or material images? III Contexts and intertexts: between Fantomas and the fairground Spanish contexts Surrealist iconography A parody of 1920s films Early cinema and fairground intertexts 1920s social context: destabilizing gender roles Conclusion Credits Bibliography

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Ginette Vincendeau has assembled an elite corps of film scholars to address a marvellous array of modern and classic French films with the close-up scrutiny they deserve. - Dudley Andrew

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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).

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