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Showing 1 to 20 of 117 for “"Surrealism"”.
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Surrealism since the Second World War with particular reference to surrealism in Czechoslovakia
This research contends that the public image of Surrealism is grossly misrepresented and therefore misunderstood in terms of its nature, its manifestations and its duration. Widely seen as an art movement of the inter-war period that tried to combine Marxism and Psychoanalysis to produce irrational …
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From Surrealist Film to Surrealism in Film (Surrealism in the 20th Century Commercial Cinema)
"Chapter five, ""Andre Delvaux or What Surrealism Could Have Been,"" looks at Delvaux's exploration of the dialectic real---imaginary and the Proustian dimension of his films. Chapter VI, ""Surrealism in Contemporary French Cinema,"" explores the dispersion of Surrealism in contemporary French …
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What is 'Surreal' about Surrealism? An investigation of Surrealism as seen through the looking-glass of Jan Svankmajer
… investigates the filmic representation of surrealism in the films of Jan Švankmajer between 1964 and 2010. These films were analysed in light of two key areas expressed in recent literature regarding the representation of surrealism in film. The first key area is the complicated …
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Methods of Surrealism and Intermedial Contemporary Dance
This thesis draws on the creative method of Surrealism referred to as automatism within the setting of contemporary dance. The research acknowledges the origins of the Surrealist movement, the use of automatism across various disciplines, and its application within the thesis research. The practice …
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THE COMMUNICATING VILLAGE: HUMPHREY JENNINGS AND SURREALISM
… Jennings, exploring his work in relation to surrealism. This examination provides an overview of how surrealism’s set of ideas is manifest in Jennings’s documentary film work. The thesis does not assert that his films are surrealist texts or that there is such a thing as a surrealist film; …
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Out of sight: surrealism and photography in 1930s Japan
… encircled by the multifaceted relations between Surrealism, photography and 1930s Japan, asking how can its historical condition be altered and written into the existing field of knowledge. Emerging and developing at a time of political oppression and military campaigning that led Japan into the …
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Aspects of surrealism in the work of Jean Cocteau
… is also necessary to examine the principles of Surrealism to determine the extent to which they have similar origins to some of Cocteau's own ideas.This line of inquiry leads to an examination of the part played by the work of Freud and Jung in inspiring both Surrealism and Cocteau. To a certain …
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Surrealism: the spirit and the letter in twentieth-century English poetry
Surrealism is dead. At any rate, that is the conclusion one might be tempted to draw in England. In France and America interest in the movement has been kept alive by intermittent discussion; but in England this has not been the case. In the latter country, little critical thought has been applied …
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A Foreign Mirror: Intertexts with Surrealism in Twentieth-Century U. S. Poetries
… were either loosely or explicitly connected to surrealism as a literary movement. This dissertation locates this explosion of interest in surrealism as an attraction to the surrealist emphasis on reconciling binaries. This emphasis allows American poets a convenient frame through which to …
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The Apocalyptic Visions of J.G. Ballard: Surrealism, World War II, and Modern Technology
… the second chapter explores the intersection of Surrealism and psychoanalysis in Ballard’s first tetralogy—The Wind from Nowhere (1962), The Drowned World (1962), The Drought (1965), and The Crystal World (1966)—and will explain how these movements informed Ballard’s reimagining of the science …
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Surrealism for the masses : housing the unconscious from Barcelona to Buenos Aires, 1938-1960
… projects that sought to mine the tactics of Surrealism. In order to do so, he collaborated with a rotating cast of architects and artists including Jorge Ferrari Hardoy and Juan Kurchan, artists Horacio Cóppola, Grete Stern, and in the context of discussions by Jorge Luis Borges, Roger …
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Traditions and Transformations in the Work of Adál: Surrealism, <i>El sainete</i>, and Spanglish
<p>The Nuyorican movement was a cultural and intellectual movement beginning in the late 1960s through the 1970s that coincided with the era of civil rights struggle in the United States. The artists, writers, poets, and others in the movement were of Puerto Rican descent and resided in New York …
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A Convergence of Surrealism and Realism: Why Spirituality, Folklore, and the Supernatural Saturate the Work of Toni Morrison
<p>This paper will analyze how Toni Morrison blends surrealistic elements into the recognized realism of her text by crafting various paradoxes within her work. Using three of Morrison’s books: <em>Sula, Song of Solomon, </em>and <em>Beloved</em>, I will examine how each book ties a specific …
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"Poetic Surrealism in the Films of Bernardo Bertolucci: ""The Spider's Strategem"", ""The Conformist"" and ""Last Tango in Paris"""
The final film chapters examine surrealism in The Spider's Stratagem, The Conformist and Last Tango in Paris as it developed out of a series of formal models that derive from surrealist painting, photography and film. Subliminally registered images that show the union of irreconcilable elements as …
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This is not a prison: surrealism in transition from the perspective of staff implementing a restorative community in a carceral facility
… of their society was the creation of the Surrealism movement. The nature of the criminal justice system shapes even the most routine operations of the carceral facility. Implementing a program that emphasizes personal dignity and community within the adversarial legal system creates an …
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Transatlantic Surrealisms, Imagined Homelands, and the Poetry of Paul Laraque
… treatments of Caribbean and Latin American surrealism(s), most notably Fredric Jameson and Alejo Carpentier’s foundational essays on magical realism, argue that the surrealism of the European metropole is a sophisticated avant-garde movement, in contrast to the blunt tool of Caribbean and …
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SURREALIST CASTLE CULTURE: GOTHIC TRACES IN SURREALIST AESTHETICS
This thesis examines the relationship between Surrealism and the Gothic novel. To date, few studies have examined why the Gothic novel appealed to the Surrealist sensibility. In particular, the neo-Gothic referents in Surrealist visual art have been largely ignored. The clearest connection between …
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The poetics of hermeticism: Andre Breton's shift towards the occult in the War years
… onward passage, he chose to carry the spirit of Surrealism into ‘exile’ in the United States until 1946, rather than risk its extinction by remaining in war-torn Europe. Following his journey into exile, this thesis traces the trajectory of Breton’s thought and poetic output of 1941–1948, …
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When Reality Was Surreal: Lee Miller's World War II War Correspondence for Vogue
… is indicative of a combination of journalism and surrealism. This thesis examines Lee Miller's war correspondence within the context of Vogue magazine, establishing parallels between the photographs and writing to determine how surrealism informs it stylistically and ideologically. Using …
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