A Cinematic Artist The Films of Man Ray

Content: Acknowledgements vii
 Introduction 1
 An interdisciplinary artist 2
 Beyond Dada and Surrealism 8
 CHAPTER 1 --
Between chaos and order: Le Retour à la raison 15
 Dada, film and performance 20
 Pro-visual/anti-narrative 30
 Chance, logic and order 39
 Visual structures 47
 Approaches to representation 55
 CHAPTER 2 --
The light and the lens: Emak Bakia 63
 Between Dada and Surrealism 75
 Optical explorations 90
 Light and movement 102
 CHAPTER 3 --
The filmmaker and the poet: L\'Etoile de mer 113
 Man Ray and Robert Desnos: A fusion of sensibilities 117
 From page to screen 127. Form versus content 145Musical accompaniment 156
 CHAPTER 4 --
Film, poetry and architecture: Les Mystères du Château du Dé 163
 From architecture to film: The villa and the commission 168
 Situating Les Mystères du Château du Dé 176
 Un coup de dés ... 184
 Spatial relations 194
 (In) animate transformations 207
 CHAPTER 5 --
Collaborations, experiments and home movies 213
 Collaborative projects 217
 Home movies and cinematic essays 229
 Conclusion 247
 Notes 255
 Bibliography 285
 Filmography 295
 Works cited 297
 Index 299
 Illustrations 307.