A Surrealism of the Movies

by Earle, William

• ISBN13: 9780913750025
• ISBN10: 0913750026
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1986-11-01
• Publisher: Transaction Pub

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
In General	11	(14)
No More Realism	25	(24)
Realism	26	(6)
The Referential Character of Perception	27	(3)
Public Availability of Perceptual Realities	30	(1)
The Meanings of Things	30	(2)
Sensory or Retinal Art	32	(2)
Surrealism	34	(4)
Ironic Films	38	(2)
Excursus: Cinema Verite and Cinema Banalite	40	(9)
The False Truth in Cinema Vertite	41	(3)
Reality and Surreality	44	(5)
Phenomenology and the Surrealism of Movies	49	(16)
Variations on the Real World	65	(16)
The Explosion of Reality	66	(7)
Motivations for Construction	73	(3)
The Absolute Point of Mind	76	(5)
Ontology of Movies, or The Movie Itself	81	(24)
The Medium and Its Meassage	87	(7)
Excursus	94	(4)
Character and Plot	98	(2)
Meaning and Society	100	(1)
Miscellaneous	101	(4)
What Makes Movies Move?	105	(14)
Moving Pictures or Pictures of Movenment?	105	(2)
Initiatives of Change	107	(3)
Escaping from Reality	110	(3)
Communication and the Solicitation of the Imagination	113	(1)
What Makes Movies Move?	114	(5)
Meaning and the Meaningless	119	(22)
Introduction	119	(3)
The Film	122	(11)
Movies as Shows: The Object	122	(3)
Movies as a Medium	125	(5)
The Manipulation of Meaning	130	(3)
Filmmaker and Audience	133	(8)
Filmmaker	133	(3)
Audience	136	(5)
Beyond Good and Evil	141	(16)
In Conclusion and Confession	154	(3)
Bibliography	157	(2)
Appendix	159	(1)
Scenario: Monsieur Phot	160
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