DADA AND SURREALIST FILM

'Kuenzli has done film studies a service by gathering some of the best minds in the fields reflecting on specific topics.' -- Andrew Horton, Film Quarterly 'A comprehensive, clear and factual presentation of the subject . . . very useful.' -- Simonne Fischer, French Review This groundbreaking collection of thirteen original essays analyzes connections between film and two highly influential twentieth-century movements. The essays, which comment on specific films and deal with theoretical and topical questions, are framed by a documentary section that includes a photographic reproduction of the manuscript scenario for Robert Desnos's and Man Ray's L'Etoile de mer, and an introduction by the editor that provides a cogent working model for the difference between Dada and Surrealist perspectives. CONTENTS: Introduction, Rudolf E. Kuenzli EssaysDada/Cinema? · Thomas Elsaesser.Léger's Ballet mécanique · Judi Freeman.Anemic Vision in Duchamp: Cinema as Readymade · Dalia Judovitz.Exploring the Discursive Field of the Surrealist Scenario Text · Richard Abel.Benjamin Fondane's 'Scenarii intournables,' · Peter Christensen.Slit Screen · David Wills.Constellated Visions: Robert Desnos's and Man Ray's L'Etoile de mer · Inez Hedges.The Image and the Spark: Dulac and Artaud Reviewed · Sandy Flitterman-Lewis.Dali and Un Chien andalou: The Nature of a Collaboration · Haim Finkelstein. Un Chien andalou: The Talking Cure · Stuart Liebman.Between the Sign of the Scorpion and the Sign of the Cross: L'Âge d'or · Allen Weiss.Documentary Surrealism: On Land without Bread · Tom Conley.The Critical Grasp: Bunuelian Cinema and Its Critics · Linda Williams.Documents Robert Desnos's and Man Ray's Scenario for L'Etoile de mer Bibliography.