Dada and Surrealist Film

This groundbreaking collection of thirteen original essays analyzes connections between film and two highly influential twentieth-century movements. The essays which comment on specific films and deal with theoretical and topical questions are framed by a documentary section that includes a photographic reproduction of the manuscript scenario for Robert Desnos's and Man Ray's L'Etoile de mer and an introduction by the editor that provides a cogent working model for the difference between Dada and Surrealist perspectives.