Adam Lowenstein argues that Surrealism's encounter with film can
help redefine the meaning of cinematic spectatorship in an era of
popular digital entertainment.
Video games, YouTube channels, Blu-ray discs, and other forms of
"new" media have made theatrical cinema seem "old." A sense of
"cinema lost" has accompanied the ascent of digital media, and many
worry film's special capacity to record the real is either
disappearing or being fundamentally changed by new media's
different technologies. The Surrealist movement offers an ideal
platform for resolving these tensions, undermining the claims of
cinema's crisis of realism and offering an alternative
interpretation of film's aesthetics and function. The Surrealists
never treated cinema as a realist medium and understood our
perceptions of the real itself to be a mirage. Reading the writing,
films, and art of Luis Bu?uel, Salvador Dal?, Man Ray, Andr?
Breton, Andr? Bazin, Roland Barthes, Georges Bataille, Roger
Caillois, and Joseph Cornell, and tracing their influence in the
films of David Cronenberg, Nakata Hideo, and Atom Egoyan; the
American remake of the Japanese "Ring" (1998); and a YouTube
channel devoted to Rock Hudson, this innovative approach puts past
and present cinema into conversation to recast the meaning of
cinematic spectatorship in the twenty-first century.
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