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Tables of Contents for A Surrealism of the Movies
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
Introduction
In General
11
14
No More Realism
25
24
Realism
26
6
The Referential Character of Perception
27
3
Public Availability of Perceptual Realities
30
1
The Meanings of Things
30
2
Sensory or Retinal Art
32
2
Surrealism
34
4
Ironic Films
38
2
Excursus: Cinema Verite and Cinema Banalite
40
9
The False Truth in Cinema Vertite
41
3
Reality and Surreality
44
5
Phenomenology and the Surrealism of Movies
49
16
Variations on the Real World
65
16
The Explosion of Reality
66
7
Motivations for Construction
73
3
The Absolute Point of Mind
76
5
Ontology of Movies, or The Movie Itself
81
24
The Medium and Its Meassage
87
7
Excursus
94
4
Character and Plot
98
2
Meaning and Society
100
1
Miscellaneous
101
4
What Makes Movies Move?
105
14
Moving Pictures or Pictures of Movenment?
105
2
Initiatives of Change
107
3
Escaping from Reality
110
3
Communication and the Solicitation of the Imagination
113
1
What Makes Movies Move?
114
5
Meaning and the Meaningless
119
22
Introduction
119
3
The Film
122
11
Movies as Shows: The Object
122
3
Movies as a Medium
125
5
The Manipulation of Meaning
130
3
Filmmaker and Audience
133
8
Filmmaker
133
3
Audience
136
5
Beyond Good and Evil
141
16
In Conclusion and Confession
154
3
Bibliography
157
2
Appendix
159
1
Scenario: Monsieur Phot
160
Joseph Cornell