Ian Christie, 'The marvellous is popular!' Dalí in the context of Hollywood surrealism Surrealism started as a revolt against the idea of elite avant-gardism, and even if it eventually became a new avant-garde, its adherents maintained an enthusiasm for popular culture, including mainstream and genre cinema, becoming arbiters in this field. This presentation examines two strands in Hollywood cinema to which Dalí, like other Surrealists, was drawn – the carnivalesque and the erotic-romantic – and will also consider the Freudian morality drama, to which he eventually contributed. Further Reading Paul Hammond, ed, The Shadow and its Shadow: Surrealist Writings on the Cinema, City Lights Books, San Francisco, 2000. Michael Richardson, Surrealism and Cinema, Berg, Oxford, 2006 Alyce Mahon, Surrealism and the Politics of Eros, 1938-1968, Thames and Hudson, 2005 Ado Kyrou, Le surrealisme au cinema, Editions Arcanes, Paris, 1953 Ian Christie, 'French Avant-Garde Film in the Twenties: From Specificity to Surrealism' in Philip Drummond et al, eds., Film as Film: Formal Experiment in Film, 1910-1975, Arts Council of Great Britain Exhibition Catalogue, 1979 pp.37-46