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  • Un Chien Andalou

    A Film By Luis Bunuel & Salvador Dali

    by Robert Short ...
    UN CHIEN ANDALOU (1929) is the first classic of underground cinema, a ferocious assault of mutilation, madness and multiple manias set in the fractured framework of a nightmare. Ants, rotting donkeys, severed hands, and ocular destruction are just some of the film’s provocative motifs, drawn from the world of Surrealism. This special ebook study of UN CHIEN ANDALOU provides an in-depth analysis ... Read more

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  • L'Age D'Or

    A Film By Luis Bunuel & Salvador Dali

    by Robert Short ...
    L’AGE D’OR (1929), the second film by Surrealists Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, remains as shocking now as on its debut with its images of sexual mania, violence, cruelty, filth, and wanton destruction. It also stands as the first-ever film to reference the writings of the Marquis de Sade, including the recreation of murderous and blasphemous scenes from Sade’s atrocity bible 120 Days Of ... Read more

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  • How to Sound Cultured

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  • Cinema

    by Alain Badiou ...
    For Alain Badiou, films think, and it is the task of the philosopher to transcribe that thinking. What is the subject to which the film gives expressive form? This is the question that lies at the heart of Badiou’s account of cinema.He contends that cinema is an art form that bears witness to the Other and renders human presence visible, thus testifying to the universal value of human existence ... Read more

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  • Venus in Exile

    The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-century Art

    by Wendy Steiner ...
    Whereas previous eras had celebrated beauty as the central aim of art, the modernist avant-garde were deeply suspicious of beauty and its perennial symbols, woman and ornament, preferring instead the thrill and alienation of the sublime. They rejected harmony, empathy, and femininity in a denial still reverberating through art and social relations today. Exploring this casting of Venus, with all ... Read more

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  • Bartleby & Co.

    by Enrique Vila-Matas ...
    Translated by Jonathan Dunne ...
    A marvelous novel by one of Spain's most important contemporary authors, in which a clerk in a Barcelona office takes us on a romping tour of world literature.In Bartleby & Co., an enormously enjoyable novel, Enrique Vila-Matas tackles the theme of silence in literature: the writers and non-writers who, like the scrivener Bartleby of the Herman Melville story, in answer to any question or demand, ... Read more

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  • Salvador Dalí

    by Mary Ann Caws ...
    Series Book 20 - Critical Lives
    Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí y Domènech, Marquis of Pubol, was born in Catalonia on May 11, 1904, and died on January 23, 1989. Best known as a surrealist painter, his artistic output also included film, sculpture, photography and writing. Dalí is also notorious for his eccentric behaviour and his involvement with the Dada movement, which often drew more attention to himself than his art ... Read more

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  • Dalí, Surrealism and Cinema

    by Elliott H. King ...
    One of the most widely recognized and controversial artists of the 20th century, Salvador Dalí was also an avant-garde filmmaker, collaborating with such giants as Luis Buñuel, Walt Disney, and Alfred Hitchcock. Influenced by the Marx Brothers, Buster Keaton, and Stanley Kubrick, Dalí used the cinema to bring the "dream subjects" of his paintings to life, providing the groundwork for revolutionary ... Read more

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  • My Last Sigh

    The Autobiography of Luis Bunuel

    by Luis Bunuel ...
    ONE OF THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER'S 100 GREATEST FILM BOOKS OF ALL TIME • A provocative memoir from Luis Buñuel, the Academy Award winning creator of some of modern cinema's most important films, from Un Chien Andalou to The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.Luis Buñuel’s films have the power to shock, inspire, and reinvent our world. Now, in a memoir that carries all the surrealism and subversion of ... Read more

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  • Jean Cocteau

    by James S. Williams ...
    Series Book 17 - Critical Lives
    From the magical Beauty and the Beast to the surreal Orpheus films, Jean Cocteau is renowned as a leading figure in European cinema as well as a creative force collaborating with artists as diverse as Picasso, Diaghilev and Edith Piaf. Yet Cocteau’s work and life have rarely been examined together. Evaluating Cocteau’s career and his fascinating personal life on equal terms, James S. Williams ... Read more

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  • Surrealist Women

    An International Anthology

    Edited by Penelope Rosemont ...
    Series series Surrealist Revolution Series
    Beginning in Paris in the 1920s, women poets, essayists, painters, and artists in other media have actively collaborated in defining and refining surrealism's basic project—achieving a higher, open, and dynamic consciousness, from which no aspect of the real or the imaginary is rejected. Indeed, few artistic or social movements can boast as many women forebears, founders, and participants—perhaps ... Read more

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