These sixteen illustrated essays present an important revision of surrealism by focusing on the works of women surrealists and their strategies to assert positions as creative subjects within a movement that regarded woman primarily as an object of masculine desire or fear.While the male surrealists attacked aspects of the bourgeois order, they reinforced the traditional patriarchal image of woman. Their emphasis on dreams, automatic writing, and the unconscious reveal some of the least inhibited masculine fantasies. The first resistance to the male surrealists' projection of the female...
These sixteen illustrated essays present an important revision of surrealism by focusing on the works of women surrealists and their strategies to ...
This collection of 13 essays analyzes connections between film and two highly influential 20th-century movements. The essays, which comment on specific films and deal with theoretical and topical questions, are framed by a documentary section that includes a photographic reproduction of the manuscript scenario for Robert Desno's and Man Ray's L'Etoile de Mer, and an introduction by the editor that provides a cogent working model for the difference between Dada and Surrealist perspectives.
This collection of 13 essays analyzes connections between film and two highly influential 20th-century movements. The essays, which comment on specifi...
