The imagination of touch: surrealist tactility in the films of Jan Švankmajer

This article is a theoretical examination of tactility in the Czech surrealist filmmaker Jan Švankmajer's film Down to the Cellar (1983). Švankmajer's deployment of tactile images in a surrealist context shows the need for a discussion of the imagination&a...

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Main Author: Kristoffer Noheden
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2013-09-01
Series:Journal of Aesthetics & Culture
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Online Access:http://www.aestheticsandculture.net/index.php/jac/article/download/21111/29895