The AvantGarde Finds Andy Hardy Author:Robert B. Ray Robert Ray's book about the Andy Hardy films proposes that alternative ways of thinking and writing about the movies can be derived from the humanities' equivalent of science's pure research--the avant-garde arts. Drawing on the Surrealist tradition, with its use of games, chance, fragments, anecdotes, and collage, Ray invents for film studies n... more »ew forms of research that imitate the cognitive habits encouraged by photography, computers, and the cinema itself.« less