Surrealism, Cinema, and the Search for a New Myth

1. Introduction
Kristoffer Noheden

2. The Artist-Magician as Filmmaker: Wilhelm Freddie’s Films and the New Myth
Kristoffer Noheden

3. Initiation into the New Myth: Primitivism and Poetics in the Surrealist Documentary Film
Kristoffer Noheden

4. Surrealism Is What Will Be: Nelly Kaplan’s Myths of Revenge
Kristoffer Noheden

5. Magic Art and Minor Myths: Jan Švankmajer’s Transmutation of Material Reality
Kristoffer Noheden

6. Concluding Remarks
Kristoffer Noheden

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, European Cinema, Film Theory, Close Reading, Film History, Aesthetics