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Includes bibliographical references and index
The fate of reason in modernity -- Dadaism and the disasters of war -- Surrealism and the cinema -- In lieu of a conclusion.
Deals with the early intellectual reception of the cinema and the manner in which art theorists, philosophers, cultural theorists, and especially artists of the first decades of the twentieth century responded to its advent. This title examines the Dada and Surrealist movements as responses to the advent of the cinema..