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Pictures of the Mind - Surrealist Photography and Film (Paperback, New edition)
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Pictures of the Mind - Surrealist Photography and Film (Paperback, New edition)
Series: New Studies in European Cinema, 5
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Pictures of the Mind is the first integrated study of Surrealist
photography and film, assessing the impact of early experimental
practice and theoretical discourse on prominent post-war trends in
art house cinema. Roland Barthes's interpretation of the
photographic image, alongside Jacques Derrida's concepts of
spectrality and trace, underscore an exploration of the recurrent
references to the phantomatic aspect of photography and film in
Surrealist theoretical writings and practice. The analysis uses
Derrida's account of the uncanny to shed light on the Surrealist
conception of photographic and film images as mental constructs, or
pictures of the mind, rather than mere visual representations. This
leads to a consideration of the similarities between the Surrealist
conception of beauty as fixed-explosive and Gilles Deleuze's theory
of the time-image as applied to Luis Bunuel's films. Ultimately,
the impact of Surrealism on post-war cinema is assessed as part of
a wider consideration of the status of photographic and filmic
images in the age of digital cinema. The elaboration of an
aesthetics of spectrality in early Surrealism is shown to have had
lasting implications for a range of post-war filmmakers such as
Chris Marker, Maya Deren, Nelly Kaplan, Federico Fellini, Andrei
Tarkovsky, Jan Svankmajer, Akira Kurosawa, Alejandro Jodorowsky,
Guillermo del Toro, Guy Maddin, Terry Gilliam and David Lynch.
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