Foreword: Magic realism – The chronicle of a discourse
Chapter 1 – Introduction
Chapter 2 – Magischer Realismus and the ‘demon fantastic’: painting, photography, film
Chapter 3 – Ethno-magic-realist documentary: ecstatic practice
Chapter 4 – Lo real maravilloso americano: prismatic reality and the screen
Chapter 5 – Magic realism: the prehensile toe – Jameson, Magritte, and affect
Chapter 6 – ‘Soviet magic realism’ and world cinema
Chapter 7 – Hyperreality, understatement, atmosphere, and ambivalence
Coda
Biography
Felicity Gee is a senior lecturer in Modernism and World Cinema at the University of Exeter, UK. Her research interests include surrealism, women theorists and critical theory, and film-philosophy. Her work takes an interdisciplinary approach, spanning film, art history, literature, and critical theory. Recent publications include articles on Claude Cahun, Leonora Carrington, Vera Chytilová, and authorial affect in Akira Kurosawa’s The Bad Sleep Well.
