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International Film Styles: Surrealism »

Rob Miller | Friday September 19, 2014

Categories: Hot Entries, Audience, Surrealism

click on image to enlarge Surrealism is a broad area of study and this resource attempts to contextualise surrealism in terms of both its historical origins but also how the style has been adapted by focusing on key texts. Surrealism, as an ‘International Film Style’ is taken as emerging out of the Surrealist Art Movement, particularly with the film work of Louis Bunuel. As a result, one of the key texts explored in this resource will be the seminal 1929 silent surrealist…
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