The slit eye, the scorpion and the sign of the cross: surrealist film theory and practice revisited

A critical presentation of the early avant-garde experimentation with film across a range of competing theoretical strands and practices (including the Impressionist school, the abstract/Dada maverick directors and the Surrealist artists),leading up to a re-assessment of the legacy of Surrealism in the Italian and French cinema from the 1960s to the 1980s