Which particular aspects of the film medium are explored in

Introduction. In this essay I plan to point out which particular aspects of the film medium are explored in surrealist film. In doing this task I will need to define surrealism in terms of the cinema and therefore explain exactly which aspects of a surrealist film set it apart from other genres to make it surrealist. In turn I shall also compare surrealist film to other genres of film including that which it is most …

…an audience, we are used to the escapism of film without the knowledge that it is in fact just a film and that we are merely watching from a great distance in the safety of an auditorium, which, surrealist film, with its shock value and its call to revolt against the idioms and the bourgeois of society somewhere loses its value as a piece of cinema which will ultimately leave the masses alienated and uninterested.