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"Un Chien Andalou" is a film created by painter Salvadore Dali that encapsulates his idea of surrealist art. This paper offers an interpretation of "Un Chien Andalou" and looks at its contribution to the development of artistic ideas. The paper shows that the film, like Dali himself, contributed to all the arts since it inspired a more extensive application of distorting symbolism which caused traditional spatial and temporal dimensions to melt.

From the Paper
"The principal aim of the Surrealist Movement was to open up the way to super-reality, fantasy, imagination and dream-like reality since its exponents believed that what really mattered was not the reasonably apparent connection among disparate events, but their subject matter and the effects they could have on the life of the individual. Due to the fact that people had been used to seeing and dealing with conventional forms of art, which had as an immediate result the belief in the representational function of art and the emotional impact impressionistic images could have on the beholder, the surrealists tried to shatter this conventional belief in order to make the transition to supra-reality possible. For this reason, they sought to connect images in an irrational order and present them in a distorted way. As a result, although most of the objects depicted may be identified as everyday objects taken from our familiar surroundings, the connection they form with each other and the message they are trying to communicate is open to question admitting no single explanation."

Tags:Bunuel, surrealism, yachting

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This paper reviews two examples of avant-garde cinema, Italian neorealist filmmaker Vittorio De Sica's 'Bicycle Thief' and Spanish filmmakers Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali's 'Un Chien Andalou'. According to the paper, avant-garde pushes the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm within definitions of art, culture and reality.

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" For example, Lamberto Maggiorani, the actor who played Antonio, was in real life a factory worker in Rome ("Bicycle Thieves"). (In the aftermath of World War II, it is also likely, however, that this casting of "real people", instead of professional actors, was done to save money by not having to pay professional actors). The documentary-style camera work of De Sica's The Bicycle Thief, moreover, further increases for the audience the sense that the film is about true-to-life people and real situations, a characteristic also typical of post-World War II Italian neo-realist cinema. This is, also, an avant-garde filmmaking technique that resists, explicitly and implicitly, the commercialism of Hollywood, while offering, instead, a "purer", more "realistic" (and lower-cost) alternative to film audiences."

Tags:cinematic, techniques, story, commercial, marginal

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This paper analyzes the film "Le Chien Andalou", in the light of Freudian psychoanalytic theory of subjectivity. The paper notes that the film emphasizes the relationship between the rational and the irrational, the conscious and the unconscious. The symbolic representations of the battle between the conscious and the unconscious, which constructs human subjectivity according to psychoanalytic theory is analysed through some scenes of the film.

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"The symbols that can be found in the film derive from the unconscious/irrational, rather than the conscious/rational. The deliberate abandon of temporal and spatial coherence creates a dream-like context. Like the workings of unconscious, as in dreams , the film does not follow a logical time sequence, starts with 'Once upon a time' continues with 'Eight years later', 'Sixteen years ago' and so on. The spatial logic of the conscious is disfigured as well. For instance, when the woman changes the room by going through a door, again she gets into the same room. Yet in another scene, the appearance of a beach just out of the door does not fit into the spatial limits of the reason. Incongruent jumps in space abound, like when the man is shot in an apartment room, the falling motion ends up in a park, briefly clutching the shoulder of a statue-like woman. "

Tags:characteristic, diagonal, stripes, unconsciousness, artistic, cultural, values

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This paper explores the themes of inter-war consciousness and cultural voids as expressed in Luis Bunuel's "Un Chien Andalou" and Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will".

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This paper looks at the contributions of Luis Bunuel, director of the Surrealist film "Un Chien Andalou"; (An Andalusian Dog) and Orson Welles, director of the American classic film, "Citizen Kane". It shows how both directors have given significant input to the history of film that are currently and still in practice.

From the Paper
"Luis Bunuel is a Spanish director who was known primarily for his contribution the Surrealist movement that emerged along with the French Impressionist movement during the latter part of 1920s. "Un Chien Andalou" (An Andalusian Dog), which was produced in the year 1928, marked the beginning of the use of surrealism in films. During this time period, surrealism is fast becoming a popular movement, and is prevalent in the visual arts, such as the paintings of Andre Breton and Salvador Dali. Incidentally, Dali is influential in Bunuel's works because his works include those of Dali's paintings, one of which was shown in "Un Chien Andalou." The Surrealist movement is characterized to be the anti-thesis of the normative formula of most films. Instead of adapting a narrative form and style, Surrealist films are antinarrative, and appeals mainly to the subconscious thoughts of people. Surrealist works are also devoid of logic, as can be seen in Bunuel's portrayal of a woman sucking the toes of a statue, and the popular scene wherein Bunuel himself cut with a razor the eyeballs of a woman. These scenes are evidently devoid of any logic, and in fact, surrealist films do not aim to explain at all whatever message (if there is a message) a film has."

Tags:Chien, Andalou, Citizen, Kane, Surrealist, movie

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This paper explains that, after the period of dis-unification, Yan Chien proclaimed himself Emperor Wen-ti initiating the Sui dynasty, which was modeled after the earlier Han dynasty. The author points out that the Sui dynasty centralized Chinese power and returned an air of legitimacy to the imperial house; the principles of governance perfected during the Sui Dynasty remained ingrained in imperial China until its dissolution nearly 1,300 years later. The paper relates that Wen-ti chose to demolish the former capitol Ch'ang-an and rebuild it with the help of distinguished architect and engineer Yu-wen K'ai; Ch'ang-an would become not only the center of Chinese political thought but also the center of the Universe, presided over by the "Son of Heaven".

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"A man of great piety, Wen-ti actively nurtured the construction of Buddhist and Taoist temples and the recovering and re-copying of both religious and secular literature. To further the goals of unification Wen-ti issued decrees on the, "purification of Chinese literary style" (Wright 10). The Emperor offered charters to those willing to build Buddhist temples and both Wen-ti and his empress were to construct several, including one dedicated to her honor after her death in 603 CE. It is said that this temple was to house a tooth of the Buddha brought back by the pilgrim Fa-hsien from India in the fifth century (Wright 89). However pious, Wen-ti and his advisors also saw organized Buddhism as a force that needed constant monitoring in order to retain the Emperor's divine right of pronouncement on all matters of morality and public policy."

Tags:reform, governance, ch'ang-an, literature, legitimacy

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This paper is an in-depth review of the cultural/social binaries in Ang Lee's 1994 "Eat Drink Man Woman." The paper discusses how these binaries allow the characters to show their complexity as they face the demands of conflicting expectations. The paper also dissects the characterization and development of the movie's three female leads. The paper concludes with the author's assessment that Ang Lee successfully subverts the patriarchal binary schemes of these women's societies.

From the Paper
"Ang Lee's 1994 film Eat Drink Man Woman is a mature and empowering cinematic, comedic exploration of the lives and development of a splintering family in contemporary Taiwan. The film begins by setting up a series of stereotypes, drawn from the usual constructions of the Asian household, as well as woman's perceived role in modern society generally. The film is redeemed from simple Hollywood-style re-presentation of the standard tropes by subverting these throughout the film. This subversion itself, however, is becoming cliche in movies today, and the womyn who defy the odds to overthrow the oppressors (see GI Jane, Thelma and Louise, and their ilk) define and limit women unfairly. Lee, however, avoids the temptation of excess, and his characters make choices not because they are self-consciously trying to protest a male dominated world, but because they believe what they are doing is best for them. Their psychology meshes superbly with their development, leaving us satisfied that the characters have become stronger woman because of their own actions vis-a-vis their context, not because of the contrived agenda of the director."

Tags:China, pacific, asia, taiwan, america, culture, feminism, women, Jia-Jen, Jia-Ning, Jia-Chien