Dada, Surrealism, and the Cinematic Effect

R. Bruce Elder is an award-winning filmmaker and teaches media at Ryerson University. His book Harmony & Dissent (WLU Press, 2008) received the prestigious Robert Motherwell Book Prize and was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book. Rudolf Kuenzli described DADA, Surrealism, and the Cinematic Effect (WLU Press, 2013) as ""that rare book that casts the early twentieth-century avant-garde in a very new light.

• DADA, Surrealism, and the Cinematic Effect by R. Bruce ElderPreface 1 The Fate of Reason in ModernityThe Modern Paradigm: Privileging ReasonGeometry and GeometriesFoundationalism CollapsesLogic and ParadoxContinuity and the Foundations of PhysicsCantor and the Strangeness of InfinityFormalist Mathematics and the Limits of ReasonConsequences of Reason's Retreat""Primitivism"" as a Response to the Collapse of ReasonNotes2 Dadism and the Disasters of WarThe Zürich Coterie and Their AnticsThe Dada Conspirators: Tristan TzaraThe Dada Conspirators: Hugo Ball and Emmy HenningsThe Dada Conspirators: Francis PicabiaThe Künstlerkneipe Cabaret Voltaire and the Galerie DadaDADA: War and PoliticsDADA against Burgeoning of Nationalism: What DADA Might Have PreventedA Precursor of DADA: The Comic GrotesqueThe Diffusion of DADAThe Conditions That Produced the State of Mind Known as DADAElementalism's Menacing LureDADA: Art and Anti-ArtDADA and the Life PrincipleConstructive DADAHans Richter on the Six Forms of Use in Returning Art to Its Elementary ConditionDada Forms: CollageFurther on Collage's New Notion of FormDADA and LanguageParallels with the Russian Trans-Rationalists and Andrei Bely Zaum and the Higher Consciousness of Trans-SensePicabia, Man Ray and the Dadaist Art of the MachineDuchamp and DADA's Art of the MachineEntr'acte (1924): CommentaryMan Ray's DADA CinemaEmak Bakia: IntroductionEmak Bakia: CommentaryDADA: In conclusionNotes3 Surrealism and the CinemaBeginningsPsychoanalysis and the Occult: The Intrusion of Alien Forms into Consciousness and the Poetics of the Surrealist Literary ImageDADA and SurrealismHippolyte Taine, Hasard Objectif, the Poetic Image and the CinemaThe Cinema, Photography and ""the Marvellous""Photography, the Surrealist Object, and the Unheimlich Ernst's Frottage as a Handmade Trace and Automatist FormSurrealism, Apollinaire, and ReconciliatioSurrealism and the Hegelian DialecticSurrealism and the Freudian DialecticDalí, the Double Image, and Paranoiac-Critical MethodsDalí Against IdealismDalí, Paranoia and Lacan: A New Phase of Surrealism BeginsLacan's Theories and Surrealists' Conception of the Poetic ImageUn chien andalou: CommentaryAn Anti-art FilmThe Verbal ImageSurrealism's Fissures and Luis Buñuel's Las Hurdes: Tierra sin panLas Hurdes and the DocumentaryDialectical Structure in Las HurdesLas Hurdes and Bataille's HeterologyLas Hurdes and the SacredLas Hurdes as an Ethnographic FilmThe Hurdanos in HistoryHow Surrealism Has Been Passed Down into the Twenty-First Century: The Marvellous Correspondence between Max Ernst's Collage Novels and Lawrence Jordan's FilmsCollage as a Pneumatic Device: Through Ernst to JordanThe Surrealist Collage Novel: Une semaine de bonté—""Dimanche"" (Calcination)The Surrealist Collage Novel: Une semaine de bonté—""Lundi"" (Dissolution)The Surrealist Collage Novel: Une semaine de bonté—""Mardi"" (Separation)The Surrealist Collage Novel: Une semaine de bonté—""Mercredi"" (Conjunction)The Surrealist Collage Novel: Une semaine de bonté—""Jeudi"" (Putrefaction/Fermentation)The Surrealist Collage Novel: Une semaine de bonté—""Vendredi"" (Distillation)The Surrealist Collage Novel: Une semaine de bonté—""Samedi"" (Coagulation)The Surrealist Collage Novel: Une semaine de bonté—""Samedi"" (Coagulation)Lawrence Jordan between Surrealism and AlchemyLawrence Jordan's Duo Concertantes: CommentaryPart One: The Centennial ExpositionPart Two: Patricia Gives Birth to a Dream by the DoorwayNotesIn Lieu of a ConclusionAppendix 1: How Reason Lost its Purchase on RealityNotesAppendix 2: Infinity Confounds ReasonNotesAppendix 3: An Account of Gödel's Proof for Poets, Painters and Art HistoriansNotesAppendix 4: Emak Bakia: A Shot Analysis and CommentaryNotesAppendix 5: Un chien andalou: A Shot Analysis and CommentaryNotesAppendix 6: Land without Bread: An Shot Analysis and CommentaryNotesAppendix 7: Analysis of Larry Jordan's Duo ConcertantesPart One: The Centennial ExpositionPart Two: Patricia Gives Birth to a Dream by the DoorwayDuo Concertantes Musical Form: TablesDuo Concertantes Part 1: The Centennial ExpositionDuo Concertantes Part 2: Patricia Gives Birth to a Dream by the DoorwayIndex

``Rigorously researched, the book rarely leans on established studes of DADA/surrealism, but it combines study of films of these movements with the movement's noncinematic work. Its length notwithstanding, this is a readable, informative book. Summing Up: Recommended.'' -- R.P. Kinsman -- Choice, January 2014, 201401