Richardson Michael. Surrealism and Cinema

Berg, Oxford - New York, 2006. — 202 p.Michael Richardson's Surrealism and cinema addresses misconceptions about surrealism and dispels any limited notion of what surrealism might be. He shows that surrealism is an activity, a living thing or a tension within the work rather than it is a style, a movement or anything tied to a fixed thing. It exists in many different styles and variations: in popular film, such as some genres of the Hollywood film, the documentary and animation. Although he acknowledges that the early twentieth century period of surrealism may never be repeated, owing to the loss of the silent film and the mystery of entering a darkened room, he nevertheless shows that surrealism exists beyond that era.