Studying Surrealist and Fantasy Cinema

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by Neil Coombs

Type: Studies
Subject: Genre > Fantasy
Keywords: surrealism, Luis Buñuel, Jan Svankmajer, Jean Cocteau, David Lynch, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Charlie Kaufman, David Cronenberg
Publishing date: 2008
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Collection: Studying Films
Language: English

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Paperback • 128 pages
5 ¼ x 7 ½ inches (13.5 x 19 cm)

ISBN

978-1-903663-96-7

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Book Presentation:
Pan's Labyrinth, Stranger Than Fiction, The Science of Sleep ... Surreal and fantastic cinema is enjoying a resurgence. A movement that goes back to the earliest days of cinema, it provides an exemplary case study to introduce all sorts of concepts-auteur study, representations, 'shocking cinema', textual analysis. Neil Coombs's guide is ideal for students new to the field, providing an explanation of the origins of Surrealism followed by detailed analyses from the history of 'world cinema', including: Bunuel's The Phantom of Liberty, Svankmajer's Alice, Cocteau's Orphée, Lynch's Lost Highway, Jeunet and Caro's The City of Lost Children, and the work of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich) and director David Cronenberg (A History of Violence).

About the Author:
Neil Coombs is a lecturer in film and media studies and a video and multimedia artist who has exhibited his work internationally.

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