Introduction: Surrealist film theory and practice -- 1. Surrealism and popular culture -- 2. Luis Bunuel and the snares of desire -- 3. Jacques Prevert and the poetry of the eventual -- 4. Surrealism and Hollywood -- 5. Surrealism and the documentary -- 6. Nelly Kaplan and sexual revenge -- 7. Walerian Borowczyk and the touch of desire -- 8. Jan Svankmajer and the life of objects -- 9. Panique: A ceremony beyond the absurd -- 10. The Baroque heresy of Raul Ruiz -- 11. Surrealism and contemporary cinema.