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Avant-garde to new wave : Czechoslovak cinema, surrealism and the sixties
- Title
- Avant-garde to new wave : Czechoslovak cinema, surrealism and the sixties / Jonathan L. Owen.
- Author
- Owen, Jonathan L.
- Publication
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 245 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Surrealism in and out of the Czechoslovak new wave -- Inspirations, opportunities : cultural and historical contexts -- Pavel Juráček's Josef Kilián (1963) and A case for the young hangman (1969) : from the surreal object to the absurd signifier -- Jiří Menzel's Closely observed trains (1966) : Hrabal and the heterogeneous -- Spoiked aesthetics : realism and anti-humanism in Věra Chytilová's Daisies (1966) -- Flights from history : otherness, politics and folk avant-gardism in Juraj Jakubisko's The deserter and the nomads (1968) and Birds, orphans and fools (1969) -- Back to utopia : returns of the repressed in Jaromil Jireš's Valerie and her week of wonders (1970) -- Jan Švankmajer : contemporary Czech surrealism and the renewal of language.
- Call Number
- MFL 13-1548
- ISBN
- 9780857451262 (alk. paper)
- 085745126X (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010052401
- OCLC
- YBP 2010052401
- Author
- Owen, Jonathan L.
- Title
- Avant-garde to new wave : Czechoslovak cinema, surrealism and the sixties / Jonathan L. Owen.
- Imprint
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- MFL 13-1548