1st Edition

Surrealism in Film Beyond the Realist Sensibility

By William Earle Copyright 1987
184 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

The arts were created from an appeal to freedom. There can be no general aesthetic that defines how that freedom must express itself. Movies offer a seductive example. Of all the major arts, cinema is the only one that was invented during the lifetime of some who are now living. From this perspective, Earle argues that filmmakers were far more inventive in their early days than now, when... Read more
Introduction; I: In General. . .; II: No More Realism; III: Phenomenology and the Surrealism of Movies; IV: Variations on the Real World; V: Ontology of Movies, or the Movie Itself; VI: What Makes a Movie Move?; VII: Meaning and the Meaningless; VIII: Beyond Good and Evil

Biography

William Earle