Dark Alchemy: The Films of Jan Svankmajer

by Peter Hames

Book Overview

Czech animator Jan Svankmajer is one of the most distinctive and influential of contemporary filmmakers. As a leading member of the Prague Surrealist Group, his work is linked to a rich avant-garde tradition and an uncompromising moral stance that brought frequent tensions with the authorities in the normalization years following the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Svankmajer's formative influences have been the pre-war surrealists,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275952991
• ISBN13: 9780275952990
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"