Surrealism

Surrealist and Fantasy Cinema

Make reference to The Phantom of Liberty and/or Alice.  You must refer to a minimum of three appropriate films in total.

1.    1.   “Surreal sequences often distance the spectators rather than involve them.”  Has this been your experience in studying films for this topic?

2.     2.  Write an introduction to a season of films made up of those you have studied for this topic, which draws attention to some of the ways in which these films offer a different kind of cinematic experience from the kind of Hollywood fantasy film available at the local multiplex.

3.     3.  What are some of the most interesting ways in which films you have studied challenge our usual experience of watching narrative realist cinema?

4.     4.  Some filmmakers use the medium of cinema in more exciting ways than others.”  How far have you found this to be true in your viewing of films for this topic?

5.     5.  How far do you believe the films you have studied for this topic were motivated by their filmmaker’s commitment to distinctive social and/or political values?

6.     6.  How important is it to see the films you have studied for this topic as being marked by their specific time and place of production?