Dada, surrealism, and the cinematic effect /
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| Author / Creator: | Elder, Bruce (R. Bruce) |
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| Imprint: | Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2013. |
| Description: | x, 765 p. ; ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Film + media studies Film + media studies. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9287435 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Notes
- 1. The Fate of Reason in Modernity
- The Modern Paradigm: Privileging Reason
- Geometry and Geometries
- Foundationalism Collapses
- Logic and Paradox
- Continuity and the Foundations of Physics
- Cantor and the Strangeness of Infinity
- Formalist Mathematics and the Limits of Reason
- Consequences of Reason's Retreat
- "Primitivism" as a Response to the Collapse of Reason
- Notes
- 2. Dadaism and the Disasters of War
- The Zürich Coterie and Their Antics
- The Dada Conspirators: Tristan Tzara
- The Dada Conspirators: Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings
- The Dada Conspirators: Francis Picabia
- The Künstlerkneipe Cabaret Voltaire and the Galerie Dada
- DADA: War and Politics
- DADA against the Burgeoning of Nationalism: What DADA Might Have Prevented
- A Precursor of DADA: The Comic Grotesque
- The Diffusion of DADA
- The Conditions That Produced the State of Mind Known as DADA
- Elementalism's Menacing Lure
- DADA: Art and Anti-Art
- DADA and the Life-Principle
- Constructive DADA
- Hans Richter on the Six Forms of Use in Returning Art to Its Elementary Condition
- Dada Forms: Collage
- Further on Collage's New Notion of Form
- DADA and Language
- Parallels with the Russian Transrationalists and Andrei Bely
- Zaum and the Higher Consciousness of Trans-Sense
- Picabia, Man Ray, and the Dadaist Art of the Machine
- Duchamp and DADA's Art of the Machine
- Entr'acte: Commentary
- Man Ray's Dada Cinema
- Emak Bakia: Introduction
- Emak Bakia: Commentary
- DADA: In Conclusion
- Notes
- 3. Surrealism and the Cinema
- Beginnings
- Psychoanalysis and the Occult: The Intrusion of Alien Forms into Consciousness and the Poetics of the Surrealist Literary Image
- DADA and Surrealism
- Hippolyte Taine, Hasard Objectif, the Poetic Image, and the Cinema
- The Cinema, Photography, and "the Marvellous"
- Photography, the Surrealist Object, and the Unheimlich
- Ernst's Frottage as a Handmade Trace and Automatist Form
- Surrealism, Apollinaire, and Reconciliation
- Surrealism and the Hegelian Dialectic
- Surrealism and the Freudian Dialectic
- Dalí, the Double Image, and Paranoiac-Critical Methods
- Dalí against Idealism
- Dalí, Paranoia, and Lacan: A New Phase of Surrealism Begins
- Lacan's Theories and Surrealists' Conception of the Poetic Image
- Un chien andalou: Commentary
- An Anti-Art Film
- The Verbal Image
- Surrealism's Fissures and Luis Buñuel's Las Hurdes: Tierra sin pan
- Las Hurdes and the Documentary
- Dialectical Structure in Las Hurdes
- Las Hurdes and Bataille's Heterology
- Las Hurdes and the Sacred
- Las Hurdes as an Ethnographic Film
- The Hurdanos in History
- How Surrealism Has Been Passed Down into the Twenty-First Century: The Marvellous Correspondence between Max Ernst's Collage Novels and Lawrence Jordan's Films
- Collage as a Pneumatic Device: Through Ernst to Jordan
- The Surrealist Collage Novel: Une semaine de bonté-"Dimanche" (Calcination)
- The Surrealist Collage Novel: Une semaine de bonté-"Lundi" (Dissolution)
- The Surrealist Collage Novel: Une semaine de bonté-"Mardi" (Separation)
- The Surrealist Collage Novel: Une semaine de bonté-"Mercredi" (Conjunction)
- The Surrealist Collage Novel: Une semaine de bonté-"Jeudi" (Putrefaction/Fermentation)
- The Surrealist Collage Novel: Une semaine de bonté-"Vendredi" (Distillation)
- The Surrealist Collage Novel: Une semaine de bonté-"Samedi" (Coagulation)
- Lawrence Jordan: Surrealism and Alchemy
- Lawrence Jordan's Duo Concertantes: Commentary
- Part 1. The Centennial Exposition
- Part 2. Patricia Gives Birth to a Dream by the Doorway
- Notes
- In Lieu of a Conclusion
- Appendix 1. How Reason Lost Its Purchase on Reality
- Notes
- Appendix 2. Infinity Confounds Reason
- Notes
- Appendix 3. An Account of Gödel's Proof for Poets, Painters, and Art Historians
- Notes
- Appendix 4. Emak Bakia: A Shot Analysis and Commentary
- Notes
- Appendix 5. Un chien andalou: A Shot Analysis and Commentary
- Notes
- Appendix 6. Land without Bread: A Shot Analysis and Commentary
- Notes
- Appendix 7. Analysis of Lawrence Jordan's Duo Concertantes
- Part 1. The Centennial Exposition
- Part 2. Patricia Gives Birth to a Dream by the Doorway
- Duo Concertantes Musical Form: Tables
- Duo Concertantes Part 1: The Centennial Exposition
- Duo Concertantes Part 2: Patricia Gives Birth to a Dream by the Doorway
- Index
