Front Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- 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 À Nous la liberté -- Style in À 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 the 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 Buñuel -- Generic hybridity and subjectivity in the 1930s and 60s -- Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie -- Belle de Jour -- Cet obscur objet du désir -- Chapter 5: Media Objects in Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain -- Jean-Pierre Jeunet and René Clair -- Cinéma du look -- Postmodernism -- Media of expression and communication as objects -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.