Forgive me, I think I hit the 'Delete' key on an earlier posting inquiring about literature on symbolism in Hitchcock and Bunuel. Assuming that there was such an inquiry ... There's a fine essay, "Hitchcock and Bunuel: Authority, Desire, and the Absurd", by Robert Stam, in Raubicheck & Srebnick (eds), 'Hitchcock's Rereleased Films: From Rope to Vertigo' (1991). In my own book, 'The Alfred Hitchcock Story' (1999) the entry on CHAMPAGNE likens that film's recurring shot of a champagne glass to the recurring sound of harness bells in Bunuel's BELLE DE JOUR. And the entry on SPELLBOUND likens the scissoring of the drapes with eyes painted on them, in the dream sequence, to the razor's slashing the eye in Bunuel/Dali's UN CHIEN ANDALOU. I give it a sexual meaning, whereas I understand that Bill Krohn's forthcoming 'Hitchcock at Work' (French and English editions), while drawing the same parallel, takes a slightly different interpretative tack. - Ken Mogg (author, 'The Alfred Hitchcock Story'). http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~muffin ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite