Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: Surrealist Objects and Cinema

The notion of the surrealist object

The hybrid object versus the surrealist object; cinema versus surrealism

Objects in surrealist cinema: Un Chien andalou

Chapter 2: Style and the Hybrid Object in Á Nous la liberté

Style in Á Nous la liberté

Object analysis

Chapter 3: The Everyday and the Hybrid Object in the Czech New Wave and Jan svankmajer

The context of a cultural renewal

Czech surrealism from its beginnings to the 1960s

Common concerns of Czech surrealism and Czech New Wave

Hybrid objects and the Czech New Wave

Hybrid Objects and Jan svankmajer's short films of the 1960s

Chapter 4: Genre and the Hybrid Object in Late Bunuel

Generic hybridity and subjectivity in the 1930s and 60s

Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie

Belle de Jour

Cet obscure objet du désir

Chapter 5: Media Objects in Le Fabuluex destin d'Amélie Poulain

Jean-Pierre Jeunet and René Clair

Cinéma du look

Postmodernism

Media of expression and communication as objects

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index