Un Chien Andalou
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Un Chien Andalou

French Film Guide

  1. 128 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Un Chien Andalou

French Film Guide

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Year
2010
Print ISBN
9781848850569
eBook ISBN
9780857711274
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Art Theory & Criticism
Index
History
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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

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction: It's dangerous to look inside
  3. 1. Producing 'Un chien andalou': myths of origin
  4. 2. Romantic melodrama or magic theatre?
  5. 3. Contexts and intertexts: between Fantomas and the fairground
  6. Conclusion
  7. Appendix 1: Synopsis
  8. Appendix 2: Credits
  9. Appendix 3: Selected bibliography