The Unsilvered Screen: Surrealism on Film

by Graeme Harper

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Leading critics from the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Canada, and Japan offer fresh, provocative views of canonical Surrealist works from 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.

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Graeme Harper is a Professor of Creative Writing at Oakland University, Michigan, USA. He is Series Editor of New Writing Viewpoints, as well as Editor of New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing. Graeme was the inaugural chair of the Higher Education Committee at the UK's National Association of show more Writers in Education (NAWE). He is an award-winning fiction writer and a former Commonwealth Scholar in Creative Writing. show less

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Nonfiction, Art & Design
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791.4361163Arts & recreationRecreation, sports, and performing artsPublic performancesMotion pictures, radio, television, podcastingMotion picturesSpecial aspects of films; film adaptations, film genres {class specific films in 791.437}Films displaying specific qualitiesNontraditional viewpointsDadaism and surrealismSurrealism
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PN1995.9 .S85 .U57Language and LiteratureLiterature (General)Literature (General)DramaMotion pictures
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