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Surrealism, cinema, and the search for a new myth

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Surrealism, cinema, and the search for a new myth/ by Kristoffer Noheden.
Author:	Noheden, Kristoffer.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2017.,
Description:	vii, 261 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Motion pictures - Philosophy. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55501-0
ISBN:	9783319555010

Surrealism, cinema, and the search for a new myth
Noheden, Kristoffer.

Surrealism, cinema, and the search for a new myth[electronic resource] /by Kristoffer Noheden. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017. - vii, 261 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

1. Introduction -- 2. The Artist-Magician as Filmmaker: Wilhelm Freddie's Films and the New Myth -- 3. Initiation into the New Myth: Primitivism and Poetics in the Surrealist Documentary Film -- 4. Surrealism Is What Will Be: Nelly Kaplan's Myths of Revenge -- 5. Magic Art and Minor Myths: Jan Svankmajer's Transmutation of Material Reality -- Concluding Remarks.

This book examines post-war surrealist cinema in relation to surrealism's change in direction towards myth and magic following World War II. Intermedial and interdisciplinary, the book unites cinema studies with art history and the study of Western esotericism, closely engaging with a wide range of primary sources, including surrealist journals, art, exhibitions, and writings. Kristoffer Noheden looks to the Danish surrealist artist Wilhelm Freddie's forays into the experimental short film, the French poet Benjamin Peret's contribution to the documentary film L'Invention du monde, the Argentinean-born filmmaker Nelly Kaplan's feature films, and the Czech animator Jan Svankmajer's work in short and feature films. The book traces a continuous engagement with myth and magic throughout these films, uncovering a previously unknown strain of occult imagery in surrealist cinema. It broadens the scope of the study of not only surrealist cinema, but of surrealism across the art forms. Surrealism, Cinema, and the Search for a New Myth will appeal to film scholars, art historians, and those interested in the impact of occultism on modern culture, film, and the arts.

ISBN: 9783319555010

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-55501-0doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

556100
Motion pictures
--Philosophy.

LC Class. No.: PN1995 / .N64 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 791.4301

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