Surrealism and Animation

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Beyond Disorientation': Surrealism, Animation, and the Hidden World, Abigail Susik (Willamette University, USA)

Part One: Activating Still Life and Materializing Dreams: Surrealism and Animation from the 1920s to Midcentury
Introduction to Part One, Abigail Susik
1. It's a Bird: Animation, Objective Humour, and the Heart of the Black Star, Krzysztof Fijalkowski (Norwich University of the Arts, UK)
2. Len Lye: Animation, Automatism, and Surrealism, Raymond Spiteri, (Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
3. Boop-Oop-a-Doop: Betty Boop's Adventures in Surrealism, Michael Richardson (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
4. Animation and Animacy in Salvador Dali's 1930s Multimedia Projects, Alex Zivkovic (Columbia University, USA)
5. Max Ernst's Cartoon Modernism: Brentano, Disney and Dream and Revolution, David Hopkins (University of Glasgow, UK)
6. Woe to the sperm whale that fought against a louse! On the Surrealist Reception of Tex Avery in the 1950s, Gavin Parkinson (The Courtauld Institute of Art, UK)

Part Two: Animacy Transforming the World: Postwar Transnational Surrealism and Animation
Introduction to Part Two, Abigail Susik
7. Parker Tyler's 'Film as the problem of space control', Ann Reynolds (University of Texas, USA)
8. Harry Smith and Lawrence Jordan in San Francisco, 1946-64, Jorgelina Orfila and Francisco Ortega (Texas Tech University, USA)
9. Magical Dreams: The Surrealist Animations of Dušan Tomaš Marek in Czechoslovakia and Australia, Cheri Donaldson (University of South Australia, Australia)
10. Animating Death and Deadening Life in 1964: Angels' Games by Walerian Borowczyk and Les Temps morts by Rene Laloux and Roland Topor, Abigail Susik (Willamette University, USA)
11. Everyday Dreamlife: Surrealism and Animation in Japan, Catherine Hansen (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
12. The Secret Life of the World: Jan Švankmajer's Documentary Animation, Kristoffer Noheden (Stockholm University, Sweden)

Part Three: A Living Art for Critical Re-enchantment: Contemporary Surrealism and Animation
Introduction to Part Three, Abigail Susik
13. Animating the surreal side of structural film in the 1970s, Ken Eisenstein (Bucknell University, USA)
14. Ubu Animated: Jan Lenica, Geoff Dunbar, and William Kentridge, Ian Walker (Independent Scholar, UK)
15. Surrealism, Animation, and Ecological Consciousness in Cecilia Vicuna's Paracas (1983), Paulina Caro Troncoso (Independent Scholar, Chile and Italy)
16. A Feminist-Surrealist Metamorphosis: The Charged Objects of Kim L. Pace, Catriona McAra (University of Aberdeen, UK)
17. Sweet Horror Claymation: Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg's Neo-neo-surrealism, Marie Arleth Skov (Independent scholar, Germany)

Interviews
18. 'We Are All Surrealists': Abigail Susik and Jacolby Satterwhite in conversation, Jacolby Satterwhite (New York-based artist, USA)
19. An Exorcism and Liberation: Penny Slinger and Judith Noble in conversation, Judith Noble (Plymouth College of Art, UK), Penny Slinger (Los Angeles-based artist, USA)

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