The Shadow And Its Shadow

The Shadow And Its Shadow Is A Classic Collection Of Writings By The Surrealists On Their Mad Love Of Moviegoing.the Forty-odd Theoretical, Polemical, And Poetical Re-visions Of The Seventh Art In This Anthology Document Surrealisms Scandalous And Nonreductive Take On Film. Writing Between 1918 And 1977, The Essayists Include Such Names As Andr Breton, Louis Aragon, Robert Desnos, Salvador Dal, Luis Buuel, And Man Ray, As Well As Many Of The Less Famous Though Equally Fascinating Figures Of The Movement.paul Hammonds Introduction Limns The History Of Surrealist Cinemania, Highlighting How These Revolutionary Poets, Artists, And Philosophers Sifted The Silt Of Commercialoften Hollywoodcinema For The Odd Fleck Of Gold, The Windfall Movie That, Somehow Slipping Past The Censor, Questioned The Dominant Order.such Prospecting Pivoted Around The Notion Of Lyrical Behavioras Depicted On The Screen And As Lived In The Movie House. The Representation Of Such Behavior Led The Surrealists To Valorize The Manifest Content Of Such Denigrated Genres As Silent And Sound Comedy, Romantic Melodrama, Film Noir, Horror Movies.as To Lived Experience, Moviegoing Surrealists Looked To The Spectacles Latent Meaning, Reading Films As The Unwitting Providers Of Redemptive Sequences That Could Be Mentally Clipped Out Of Their Narrative Context And Inserted Into Daily Lifethere, To Provoke Adventures.