Surrealist cinema is a modernist approach to film theory, criticism, and production, with origins in Paris in the 1920s. The Surrealist movement used...

absurdity, and cruelty of the modern world.[citation needed] Absurd and surrealist cinema often deals with elements of dark humour: disturbing or sinister subjects...

Breton speaks of in the first Surrealist Manifesto), with the works themselves being secondary, i.e., artifacts of surrealist experimentation. Leader Breton...

as a source of inspiration is central to the nature of surrealism. The Surrealist movement has been a fractious one since its inception. The value and role...

The Surrealist Manifesto refers to a collection of several publications between Yvan Goll and André Breton, prior leaders of the rival Surrealist groups...

of Gold: Surrealist Cinema. Creation Books, 2003. ISBN 1-84068-059-8. Williams, Linda. Figures of Desire: A Theory and Analysis of Surrealist Film. Paperback...

Surrealist music is music which uses unexpected juxtapositions and other surrealist techniques. Discussing Theodor W. Adorno, Max Paddison defines surrealist...

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history of cinema. The term was first used by a group of French film critics and cinephiles associated with the magazine Cahiers du cinéma in the late...

non-figurative. Much of surrealist cinema can be regarded as non-narrative films and partly overlaps with the dadaist cinéma pur movement. Abstract film...