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 Švankmajer

            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 Švankmajer’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