ISBN:
9783319555010
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (261 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Aesthetics
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Motion pictures ; Philosophy
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Motion pictures ; Europe ; History
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Surrealism and Cinema After the War -- For an Expanded History of Surrealist Cinema -- The Search for a New Myth -- Occult Transformations -- Analogy and the Poetics of Cinema -- Film and Experience -- Outline of the Book -- Chapter 2 The Artist-Magician as Filmmaker: Wilhelm Freddie's Films and the New Myth -- Wilhelm Freddie and the Surrealist Short Film -- Freddie's Esoteric Period: Connections and Transformations -- Surrealistisk Manifestation and "Why Do I Paint?" -- The World and the Senses -- Occult Iconography and Perverted Poetry -- The Magic Circle -- The Hermetic Cabala -- The Alchemical Imagination -- The Tarot and the Vis Imaginativa -- The Afterlife of the New Myth -- Chapter 3 Initiation into the New Myth: Primitivism and Poetics in the Surrealist Documentary Film -- Reconfiguring the Past -- Surrealism and Documentary Film -- Ethnography, Surrealism, and Cinema -- Anti-colonialism, Magic, and the Exhibition of "Primitive" Art -- Poetics of the Wunderkammer -- The Marvellous and the New Myth -- Initiation into the Marvellous -- Reinventing the World -- Chapter 4 Surrealism Is What Will Be: Nelly Kaplan's Myths of Revenge -- Nelly Kaplan and the Crisis of French Surrealism -- The Marvellous Is Popular -- The Formation of the Surrealist Feature Film -- Inverting the Poles -- A Digression on Leonora Carrington -- Witches Against Patriarchy -- Investigating Sex, Becoming a Seer -- Magical Transformation -- Chapter 5 Magic Art and Minor Myths: Jan Švankmajer's Transmutation of Material Reality -- Jan Švankmajer and Surrealist Animation -- Czech-Slovak Surrealism -- Concrete Irrationality -- Personal Mythology -- The Fetish Against Western Civilization -- Magic Animation -- A New Myth of Dethroned Humanity -- Experiments in Tactility -- Analogy and Interpretation
Abstract:
The Imagination of Touch -- Minor Myths of Matter -- Initiation: The World as a Cabinet of Curiosities -- Chapter 6 Concluding Remarks -- Innervation and Initiation -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
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