From: "KERRY VINCENT" <KVINCENT-AT-NSTC_2.NSTC.NS.CA>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 14:36:53 +0400 ADT/AST
Subject: (Fwd) Re: Surreal imagery


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Date:          Tue, 23 Jan 1996 09:55:51 +0100
To:            postcolonial-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu
From:          "ana l. valdis" <agora-AT-algonet.se>
Subject:       Re: Surreal imagery
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>I am working on a textual/filmic analysis of the film _Sammy and Rosie Get
>Laid_ by Hanif Kureishi and Stephen Frears towards my thesis. I would
>appreciate some suggestions from any of the list members re the use of
>surrealist qualities or images in films.  A number of surrealist elements
>appear in the film: for example, the cabbie/ghost, a severed finger with
>nail in Rafi's dinner, water turning to blood with skelton, the burning
>picture of Virginia Woolf.  What I think I might need is some articles on
>how surrealist imagery works in films or texts (this sounds too broad a
>request?). What I would like is some insights into how to talk about these
>elements in relation to the issues raised in the film.
>
>I would appreciate any suggested references, articles list members may think
>of. 
>Regards
>Debbie 
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>Debbie Rodan
>Dept. English and Comparative Lit.
>d_rodan-AT-central.murdoch.edu.au
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>Do a searching on Peter Greenaways films and esthetic. There are a lot of 
reasearch about him in the Netherlands and Germany universities. Many 
reserachers work with his surrealism. Greetings from Ana L. Valdes.



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James Clifford makes some interesting comments about surrealism as 
"critical cultural politics," if I remember correctly, in The 
Predicament of Culture. 
kerry vincent 
kvincent-AT-nstc_2.nstc.ns.ca


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