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Article: Surrealism and Cinema.(The Unsilvered Screen: Surrealism on Film)(Book review)
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- June 22, 2008
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Surrealism and Cinema by Michael Richardson. London and New York: Berg, 2006, 202 pp, illus. Hardcover: $99.95 and Paperback: $24.95.
The Unsilvered Screen: Surrealism on Film edited by Graeme Harper and Rob Stone. London and New York: Wallflower Press, 2007, 179 pp. Hardcover: $80.00 and Paperback: $25.00.
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"The real purpose of Surrealism was not to create a new literary, artistic or even philosophical movement, but to explode the social order, to transform life itself." Luis Bunuel's words encapsulate the world-view of the early pioneers of the Surrealist project: as Michael Richardson's engaging new book Surrealism and ...