{"product_id":"reframing-reality-the-aesthetics-of-the-surrealist-object-in-french-and-czech-cinema-9781841507125","title":"Reframing Reality: The Aesthetics of the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarcel Duchamp’s urinal re-named ‘fountain’ and placed in an art gallery. The classic image that can be seen as a duck or a rabbit, depending on how you look at it. A random object that grabs your attention and, like a Freudian slip, sums up whatever’s on your mind. These are just a few examples of surrealist objects, items from everyday life that have something to tell us about the workings of the unconscious. In \u003cem\u003eReframing Reality\u003c\/em\u003e, Alison Frank argues that the surrealist object offers a promising new way of understanding surrealism’s legacy in cinema. Early studies of surrealist cinema restricted themselves to the handful of films that received official approval from the surrealist group. More recent studies have looked more broadly at films that explore the unconscious as a theme.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReframing Reality\u003c\/em\u003e is the first to use the specifically surrealist concept of the surrealist object to trace the influence of surrealism in a broader range of films. When objects to do more than just advance the storyline, or have a mysterious meaning that is never fully explained, they are imitating the form of the surrealist object. \u003cem\u003eReframing Reality\u003c\/em\u003e finds surrealist objects in films by Luis Buñuel and Jan Švankmajer, who acknowledged the importance of surrealism in their work, but also in the films of René Clair, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and the directors of the Czech New Wave, for whom surrealism was just one of many influences. By looking more closely at the role of objects in films, particularly those made during times of great change in the industry, we can gain a better understanding of both the legacy of surrealism in cinema and film language more generally.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1: Surrealist Objects and Cinema\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe notion of the surrealist object\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe hybrid object versus the surrealist object; cinema versus surrealism\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eObjects in surrealist cinema: \u003cem\u003eUn Chien andalou\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2: Style and the Hybrid Object in \u003cem\u003eÁ Nous la liberté\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eStyle in \u003cem\u003eÁ Nous la liberté\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eObject analysis\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3: The Everyday and the Hybrid Object in the Czech New Wave and Jan Švankmajer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe context of a cultural renewal\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCzech surrealism from its beginnings to the 1960s\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCommon concerns of Czech surrealism and Czech New Wave\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eHybrid objects and the Czech New Wave\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eHybrid Objects and Jan Švankmajer’s short films of the 1960s\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4: Genre and the Hybrid Object in Late Bunuel\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eGeneric hybridity and subjectivity in the 1930s and 60s\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLe Charme discret de la bourgeoisie\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBelle de Jour\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCet obscure objet du désir\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5: Media Objects in \u003cem\u003eLe Fabuluex destin d’Amélie Poulain\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eJean-Pierre Jeunet and René Clair\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCinéma du look\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePostmodernism\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMedia of expression and communication as objects\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eConclusion\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBibliography\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIndex\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Intellect Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042928492887,"sku":"9781841507125","price":22.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781841507125.jpg?v=1750956270","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reframing-reality-the-aesthetics-of-the-surrealist-object-in-french-and-czech-cinema-9781841507125","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}