Jump Cuts Essays on Surrealism, Film, Music, Culture, and Other Utopian Topics Essays on Surrealism, film, music, culture, and other utopian topics Polizzotti, Mark creator author. text nyu 2025 2025 monographic eng print 222 pages ; 19 cm "Alfred Jarry's Ubu and Alain Resnais's Nim. Bob Dylan's tightrope walks and Alfred Hitchcock's vertigo. Flaubert's kicks against idiocy and Cocteau's embrace of death. The enduring appeal of Surrealism and the failures of intellectual culture. In these thirteen essays, Mark Polizzotti brings fresh readings to topics both mainstream and esoteric. Drawing on three decades of critical writings, Jump Cuts ranges across a broad swath of subjects--film, music, literature, translation, the pitfalls of biography, the current dilemma of the humanities--to map the creative act as it strains to fulfill our eternal, unrequited yearning for transcendence." -- Mark Polizzotti. Surrealism Art, Modern 20th century Art and society Film criticism Art criticism Surréalisme Art 20e siècle Art et société Critique cinématographique Critique d'art Surrealist art criticism Surrealism Art, Modern Film criticism Art criticism 1900-1999 fast NX180.S6 P655 2025 9798991298834 POD IG# 250430 20251025234646.8 in00005667345 eng