Table of Contents

Part 1 Essays: Dada/cinema?, Thomas Elsaesser; Leger's ballet mecanique, Judi Freeman; anaemic vision in Duchamp - cinema as readymade, Dalia Judovitz; exploring the discursive field of the Surrealist scenario text, Richard Abel; Benjamin Fondane's "Scenarii Intournables", Peter Christensen; slit screen, David Wills; constellated visions - Robert Desnos's and Man Ray's "L'Etoile de Mer", Inez Hedges; the image and the spark - Dulac and Artaud reviewed, Sandy Flitterman-Lewis; Dali and "Un Chien Andalou" - the nature of a collaboration, Haim Finkelstein; "Un Chien Andalou" - the talking cure, Stuart Liebman; between the sign of the scorpion and the sign of the cross - "L'Age d'Or", Allen Weiss; documentary Surrealism - on "Land Without Bread", Tom Conley; the critical grasp - Bunuelian cinema and its critics, Linda Williams. Part 2 Documents: Robert Desnos's and Man Ray's scenario for "L'Etoile de Mer". Part 3 Bibliography on Dada and Surrealist film.

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Rudolf Kuenzli is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director of the International Dada Archive at the University of Iowa.

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