Jan Svankmajer

by Keith Leslie Johnson

Jan Svankmajer enjoys a curious sort of anti-reputation: he is famous for being obscure. Unapologetically surrealist, Svankmajer draws on the traditions and techniques of stop-motion animation, collage, montage, puppetry, and clay to craft bizarre filmscapes. If these creative choices are off-putting to some, they have nonetheless won the Czech filmmaker recognition as a visionary animator. Keith Leslie Johnson explores Svankmajer's work as a cinema...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252083024
• ISBN13: 9780252083020
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"