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Reframing Reality : The Aesthetics of the Surrealist Object in French and Czech Cinema
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frank, Alison.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (207 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Intellect Books Ltd, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The surrealist object is an everyday item that takes on multiple associations by provoking the viewer's imagination. It also poses a specific challenge for some filmmakers who seek to apply surrealist ideas and approaches when making feature-length narrative films. In Reframing Reality, Alison Frank looks specifically at French and Czech films, including works by Luis Buñuel and Jan Svankmajer, as well as the contemporary hit Amélie by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, in order to offer a new take on surrealist film.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- 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 Wave
- Hybrid 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 Cover.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-78320-168-1
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