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In 1929 Dali and Bunuel produced a seventeen-minute film "Un chien andalou". On its first screening, Federico Garcia Lorca called it 'a tiny little shit of a film'. Produced from a script said to be based on two dream images - a woman's eye slit by a razor, ants emerging from a hole in a man's hand - the film shocked audiences. It continues to fascinate, provoke, attract and alienate its viewers. Its eye-slitting sequence and use of dream-like images have influenced filmmakers from Alfred Hitchcock to David Lynch. Elza Adamowicz's fascinating book on "Un chien andalou" takes new approaches to the film, exploring how it can be seen both within and beyond the confines of Surrealism and reviewing its openness to so many readings and interpretations. She reassesses Dali and Bunuel's account of the film as a model surrealist work and its reception by the surrealist group, examines the unresolved tensions within the film itself and includes us as viewers - are we detectives or dreamers? She sets the film into the wider contexts of other texts and of its authors' own experiences, providing a wide and deep guide to this most enigmatic of works.
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10
The
producer
and
theatre-director
Pierre
Braunberger
bought
the
theatrical
rights
to
the
film
for
his
company
Studio-Film
(Baxter
1994:
88).
11
See
chapter
3
for
a
discussion
of
references
to
Spanish
culture
in
the
film.
12
Other
reviews
of
the
film
after
its
first
screening
include:
(in
Paris)
Comtesse
de
Beaumont
(1929),
Ghéon
(1929),
Lenauer
(1929);
(in
Barcelona)
Artigas
(1929),
Masoliver
(1929),
Piqueras
(1929);
(in
London)
Blakeston
(1929).
13
For
studies
of
Surrealism
and
the
cinema
see
Kyrou
(1963),
Matthews
(1971),
Short
(2002),
Richardson
(2006).
14
On
the
importance
of
Fantômas
for
the
surrealists,
see
Walz
(2000),
Eburne
(2008).
Table of contents
- Contents
- Introduction: It's dangerous to look inside
- 1. Producing 'Un chien andalou': myths of origin
- 2. Romantic melodrama or magic theatre?
- 3. Contexts and intertexts: between Fantomas and the fairground
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1: Synopsis
- Appendix 2: Credits
- Appendix 3: Selected bibliography
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