The Unsilvered Screen

Surrealism on Film

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Edited by Graeme Harper and Rob Stone

Type

Studies

Subject

Genre > Experimental

Keywords

surrealism, experimental

Publishing date

2007

Publisher

Wallflower Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 256 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-1-904764-87-8

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Book Presentation:
Leading critics from the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Canada, and Japan offer fresh, provocative views of canonical Surrealist works from Luis Buñuel, Jan Svankmajer, and David Lynch. They also offer lively analyses of surrealist aspects of contemporary Japanese, Russian, and British cinema, Disney animation, digital cinema, and documentary, exploring the vibrant effect and considerable legacy of surrealism on film.

About the authors:
Graeme Harper is head of creative arts, film, and media at the University of Portsmouth and is the author of Comedy, Fantasy, and Colonialism and Small Maps of the World. Rob Stone is senior lecturer in the department of media and communication at the University of Swansea and is the author of Spanish Cinema and The Wounded Throat: Flamenco in the Works of Federico García Lorca and Carlos Saura.

Press Reviews:
A welcome addition to the growing body of literature in this intriguing field. Michael Richardson, Cineaste

See the publisher website: Wallflower Press