The author of this title is professor of French Literature and Visual Culture, Queen Mary, University of London. Her books include "Surrealist Collage in Text and Image" (1998) and "Surrealism: Crossings/Frontiers" (2006).

• ContentsIllustrationsSynopsisIntroduction: It’s dangerous to look insideI Producing Un chien andalou: myths of origin From scenario to screen: a close collaboration Première and reception of Un chien andalouA surrealist film?II Romantic melodrama or magic theatre?Classic film narrative subvertedA cinema of attractionsPsychoanalytical readingsSymbols or material images?III Contexts and intertexts: between Fantômas and the fairgroundSpanish contextsSurrealist iconographyA parody of 1920s films Early cinema and fairground intertexts1920s social context: destabilizing gender rolesConclusionCreditsBibliography

"Ginette Vincendeau has assembled an elite corps of film scholars to address a marvellous array of modern and classic French films with the close-up scrutiny they deserve." - Dudley Andrew

The author of this title is professor of French Literature and Visual Culture, Queen Mary, University of London. Her books include "Surrealist Collage in Text and Image" (1998) and "Surrealism: Crossings/Frontiers" (2006).

• ContentsIllustrationsSynopsisIntroduction: It’s dangerous to look insideI Producing Un chien andalou: myths of origin From scenario to screen: a close collaboration Première and reception of Un chien andalouA surrealist film?II Romantic melodrama or magic theatre?Classic film narrative subvertedA cinema of attractionsPsychoanalytical readingsSymbols or material images?III Contexts and intertexts: between Fantômas and the fairgroundSpanish contextsSurrealist iconographyA parody of 1920s films Early cinema and fairground intertexts1920s social context: destabilizing gender rolesConclusionCreditsBibliography

"Ginette Vincendeau has assembled an elite corps of film scholars to address a marvellous array of modern and classic French films with the close-up scrutiny they deserve." - Dudley Andrew

The author of this title is professor of French Literature and Visual Culture, Queen Mary, University of London. Her books include "Surrealist Collage in Text and Image" (1998) and "Surrealism: Crossings/Frontiers" (2006).

• ContentsIllustrationsSynopsisIntroduction: It’s dangerous to look insideI Producing Un chien andalou: myths of origin From scenario to screen: a close collaboration Première and reception of Un chien andalouA surrealist film?II Romantic melodrama or magic theatre?Classic film narrative subvertedA cinema of attractionsPsychoanalytical readingsSymbols or material images?III Contexts and intertexts: between Fantômas and the fairgroundSpanish contextsSurrealist iconographyA parody of 1920s films Early cinema and fairground intertexts1920s social context: destabilizing gender rolesConclusionCreditsBibliography

"Ginette Vincendeau has assembled an elite corps of film scholars to address a marvellous array of modern and classic French films with the close-up scrutiny they deserve." - Dudley Andrew