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Czech animator Jan Svankmajer is one of the most distinctive and influential of contemporary filmmakers.

Introduction by Peter Hames The Film Experiment by Peter Hames Jan Svankmajer's Films: A Mannerist Surrealist by Michael O'Pray Thinking through Things: The Presence of Objects in the Early Films of Jan Svankmajer by Roger Cardinal Interview with Jan Svankmajer conducted by Peter Hames The Power of Imagination by Frantisek Dryje Filmography Selected Bibliography Index

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PETER HAMES is Course Leader in Film, Television, and Radio Studies at Staffordshire University. He has written widely on Czech and Slovak cinema over many years. He is author of The Czechoslovak New Wave (1985) and contributor to Five Filmmakers: Challenging the Boundaries (1991) and Post New Wave Cinema in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (1989). He has published in a range of journals including Sight and Sound, New Statesman and Society, and Index on Censorship.

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