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 111-258 Surrealism and the Cinema: From Cartoons to Video Clips

Note

Available as 111-358 at 3rd-year level.

Credit Points

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator

Associate Professor Barbara Creed

Semester

2

Contact

Not more than 4 hours lectures, tutorials and film screenings each week

Subject Description

A study of the origins, aims and features of surrealist film-making from its beginnings in Dada to its contemporary manifestations in the films of Luis Bunuel and David Lynch. Topics will include: surrealist politics; surrealist art; the marvellous; Hollywood influences; mad love; theatre of cruelty and surrealist influences in comics, video clips and advertising.

Assessment

Written work which may comprise class papers, essays of take-home examinations totalling about 5000 words.

Prescribed Texts
  • Bunuel Luis, My Last Breath. Fontana USA 1983.
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