Producing Un chien andalou : myths of origin. From scenario to screen : a close collaboration ; Première and reception of Un chien andalou ; A surrealist film? -- Romantic melodrama or magic theatre? Classic film narrative subverted ; A cinema of attractions ; Psychoanalytic readings ; Symbols or material images? -- Contexts and intertexts : between Fantômas and the fairground. Spanish contexts ; Surrealist iconography ; A parody of 1920s' films ; Early cinema and fairground intertexts ; Destabilizing gender roles -- Appendix 1. Synopsis -- Appendix 2. Credits.