The Shadow and its Shadow

Here is a classic collection of writings by the Surrealists on their mad love of moviegoing. Forty-odd theoretical, polemical, and poetical essays document Surrealism’s scandalous and nonreductive take on film. The essayists include such names as Breton, Aragon, Desnos, Dalí, Buñuel, and Man Ray, as well as many of the less famous, though equally fascinating figures of the movement.

Table of Contents: Available light / Paul Hammond

Some surrealist advice / The Surrealist Group War letter / Jacques Vaché
On décor / Louis Aragon Cinema U.S.A. / Philippe Soupault Battlegrounds and commonplaces / René Crevel Against commercial cinema / Benjamin Péret Buster Keaton's College / Luis Buñuel Abstract of a critical history of the cinema / Salvador Dalí

The marvelous is popular / Ado Kyrou

As in a wood / André Breton Picture palaces / Robert Desnos Plan for a cinema at the bottom of a lake / Bernard Roger The lights go up / Jacques Brunius Surrealism and cinema / Jean Goudal Introduction to black-and-white magic / Albert Valentin Crossing the bridge / Jacques Brunius Sorcery and cinema / Antonin Artaud The screen's prestige / Jacques Brunius Remarks on cinematic oneirism / Robert Benayoun The cinema, instrument of poetry / Luis Buñuel Malombra, aura of absolute love / The Romanian Surrealist Group Data toward the irrational enlargement of a film: The Shanghai Gesture / The Surrealist Group

The film and I / Ado Kyrou Cinemage / Man Ray Another kind of cinema / Marcel Mariën Intention and surprise / Nora Mitrani The ideal summa / Petr Král Turkey broth and unlabeled love potions / Gérard Legrand The fantastic - the marvelous / Ado Kyrou Concerning King Kong / Jean Ferry Larry Semon's message / Petr Král Hands off love / The Surrealist Group Chaplin, the copper's nark / Jean-Louis Bédouin Manifesto of the Surrealists concerning L'ge d'orr / The Surrealist Group

Zaroff; or, The prosperities of vice / Robert Benayoun Eroticism / Robert Desnos Eroticism = love / Ado Kyrou Au repas des guerrières / Nelly Kaplan Female x film =

The Shadow and Its Shadow is a collection of classic writings by the Surrealists on their mad love of moviegoing.

The Shadow and Its Shadow is a collection of classic writings by the Surrealists on their mad love of moviegoing.

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The Surrealists loved the cinema and recorded their impassioned readings of what they saw, created, and imagined in writings gathered and translated by Hammond, an author and editor of works on Mir<'o> and others. Following Hammond's introduction are over 40 essays written between 1918 and 1977, by Andr<'e> Breton, Louis Aragon, Robert Desnos, Salvador Dal<'i>, Luis Bu<~n>el, and Man Ray, among others. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)