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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 Metz's 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 __l'Âge d'or__ (both co-scripted by Salvador Dali) and __Phantom of Liberty__ and __That Obscure Object of Desire__.

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Author

Linda Williams

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520078963

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sports, Literary Fiction, Poetry

Updated

2026-03-24