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Figures of Desire: A Theory and Analysis of Surrealist Film

Paperback – January 8, 1992
by Williams, Linda
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ISBN-13: 9780520078963 ISBN-10: 0520078969
Publisher
University of California Press
Binding
Paperback
Published
January 8, 1992
Weight
0.7 lbs
Dimensions
23.50×1.90×15.90 cm

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Figures of Desire: A Theory and Analysis of Surrealist Film by Williams, Linda. Paperback edition. ISBN: 9780520078963.

Linda Williams examines the theoretical and poetic writings of the Surrealists during the period from 1910 to 1930 and traces the emergence of a poetics of the cinematic image based upon the fluid associations of dreams and the unconscious. Incorporating both Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and Metzs methodology on film and dream rhetoric, she analyzes the structure of unconscious desire in four key Surrealist films by Luis Buñuel: Un chien andalou and lÂge dor (both co-scripted by Salvador Dali) and Phantom of Liberty and That Obscure Object of Desire.