Ebook: Reframing Reality: the Aesthetics of the Surrealist Object in French and Czech Cinema

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.