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Surrealist Sounds
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This chapter focuses on the controversial early sound films directed by avant-garde filmmakers Jean Cocteau and Luis Buñuel: Le Sang d’un poète (1930) by Cocteau and L’Age d’or (1930) by Buñuel. They were the first surrealist sound films, and both filmmakers used music to create strange audiovisual juxtapositions and to shock their audiences. Although music’s role in the surrealist movement was contested, Lewis demonstrates through her analysis of these two films that music was crucial for a surrealist audiovisual cinematic conception. While experiments this audacious were short-lived, these two films offer a glimpse into a style of audiovisual filmmaking that was most closely aligned with modernist musical practices of the 1920s, in terms of the participants involved, their aesthetic priorities, and the institutional structures in which they were funded and supported.
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This chapter focuses on the controversial early sound films directed by avant-garde filmmakers Jean Cocteau and Luis Buñuel: Le Sang d’un poète (1930) by Cocteau and L’Age d’or (1930) by Buñuel.
They were the first surrealist sound films, and both filmmakers used music to create strange audiovisual juxtapositions and to shock their audiences.
Although music’s role in the surrealist movement was contested, Lewis demonstrates through her analysis of these two films that music was crucial for a surrealist audiovisual cinematic conception.
While experiments this audacious were short-lived, these two films offer a glimpse into a style of audiovisual filmmaking that was most closely aligned with modernist musical practices of the 1920s, in terms of the participants involved, their aesthetic priorities, and the institutional structures in which they were funded and supported.
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