Figures of Desire: A Theory and Analysis of Surrealist Film

by Linda Williams

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Linda Williams examines the theoretical and poetic writings of the Surrealists during the period from 1910 to 1930 and traces the emergence of a poetics of the cinematic image based upon the fluid associations of dreams and the unconscious. Incorporating both Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and Metz's methodology on film and dream rhetoric, she analyzes the structure of unconscious desire in four key Surrealist films by Luis Bunuel: Un chien andalou...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520078969

ISBN13:9780520078963

Release Date:January 1992

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:229 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Arts, Music & Photography Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Humor & Entertainment Movements & Periods Movies Performing Arts Surrealism

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