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Acknowledgments
ANIMIST CINEMA
Humiliation, or Object Life
On the Marionette Cinema
Anti-Illusion: Fantasy in G Minor and Et Cetera
Combinatorics: The Last Trick and Game with Stones
Tragedies without Actors: The Ossuary and Fall of the House of Usher
Wunderkammer, or Creaturely Life
Amateur Play: Historia naturae
Impersonal Play: Picnic with Weissmann
Child's Play: Down to the Cellar, Alice, and Little Otik
Haptics, or Animal Life
You Are What You Eat: Food
The Art of Conversation: Dimensions of Dialogue
Please Touch: Conspirators of Pleasure
Imagination, or Political Life
As Above, So Below: Faust
(Ab)normalization: The Flat, A Quiet Week in the House, and The Death of
Stalinism in Bohemia
Absolute Freedom: Lunacy
Survival, or Ecological Life
Flat Ontology: Surviving Life
Ethical Misanthropy: Hmyz
INTERVIEWS WITH JAN SVANKMAJER
Filmography
Bibliography
Index