It’s a Kind of Magic: World Construction in French Surrealist and Belgian Magical Realist Fiction and Cinema

In: Avant-Garde Film
Authors:
Bart Keunen
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Sascha Bru
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Chapter
Pages:
231–248
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401200035_014

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Abstract

In comparing Surrealist cinema and literature with that of magical realism, one cannot escape the impression that in magical realism some of the Surrealist magic is lost. In an attempt to explain this loss, this chapter compares the ways in which the two movements interpret reality by means of images.

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Avant-Garde Film

Series:  Avant-Garde Critical Studies, Volume: 23 and  Avant-Garde Critical Studies, Volume: 23
Cover Avant-Garde Film
E-Book ISBN:
9789401200035
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
01 Jan 2007

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