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Part One : The Image -- The Image In Pre-surrealist Poetic Theory -- The Surrealist Image -- Goudal, Artaud, And Denos In Search Of The Language Of Dreams -- Freud, Lacan, And The Unconscious -- Surrealist Film And The Imaginary -- Part Two : Un Chien Andalou -- Jakobson's Metaphor And Metonymy : Rhetorical Figures In Film -- The Prologue To Un Chien Andalou : A Surrealist Film Metaphor -- Latent Meaning -- The Meaning Of The Figures -- Part Three : L'age D'or -- L'age D'or And Its Myth -- L'age D'or : A Description Of The Film -- L'age D'or As Myth -- Interdiction And Transgression -- Diegesis And Figure -- The False Mirror -- Part Four : Contemporary Surrealism : Buñuel's The Phantom Of Liberty And That Obscure Object Of Desire -- The Phantom Of Liberty -- Permutations Of Freedom -- Surrealist Metonymy -- That Obscure Object Of Desire -- Part Five : Conclusion : The Figures Of Desire -- Film Fetish. Linda Williams. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 219-225.

Author

Linda Williams (undifferentiated), Linda Ruth Williams

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Published

1981

Language

EN

ISBN

9780252008788

Subjects

Sports, Literary Fiction, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-24