Luis Buñuel : new readings / edited by Peter William Evans and Isabel Santaolalla.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Santaolalla, Isabel.

Evans, Peter William.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buñuel, Luis, 1900-1983--Criticism and interpretation.

Buñuel, Luis.

Buñuel, Luis, 1900-1983.

Criticism and interpretation.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xii, 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : BFI, 2004.

Summary:

Luis Bunuel (1900-83) was one of the world's great film-makers. Always controversial, his first film, Un chien andalou (1928), which he referred to as a 'call to murder', was a savage Surrealist experiment. L'Age d'or (1930), his second, was banned in Paris after its initial screening led to violent disturbances. Thereafter, his films continued to challenge, provoke and subvert social conventions in their searching analyses of human desire. Luis Bunuel: New Readings examines key films and moments from all stages of the director's career: the early years in Spain and France, the middle period in Mexico and the USA, and the return to Europe, where he made late masterpieces like Belle de Jour (1966) and Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972). Twenty years after his death, the time is ripe for a re-evaluation of Bunuel's legacy. Through theoretically informed discussions of individual films and dominant tendencies, as well as through more biographically orientated perspectives (including newly discovered correspondence), this book locates and re-appraises Bunuel's films with particular emphasis on the national cinemas and varied cultures with which he was identified. These new readings show that the significance and impact of Bunuel's work remain undiminished by the passage of time.

Contents:

Foreword: A Desperate Call for Murder / Juan Luis Bunuel xi

Introduction: Luis Bunuel

Twenty Years After / Peter William Evans, Isabel Santaolalla 1

Part 1 Early Years

1. Lost and Found: Bunuel, L'Age d'or and Surrealism / Paul Hammond 13

2. A Serious Experiment: Land Without Bread, 1933 / Merce Ibarz 27

3. The Decisive Moments of Bunuel's Time in the United States: 1938-40. An Analysis of Previously Unpublished Letters / Javier Herrera Navarro 43

Part 2 Mexico

4. Bunuel's Box of Subaltern Tricks: Technique in Los olvidados / Stephen Hart 65

5. Hybrid Culture and Acoustic Imagination: The Case of Robinson Crusoe / Marvin D'Lugo 80

6. Domination and Appropriation in The Young One / Isabel Santaolalla 97

Part 3 Late Bunuel

7. Of Boxes, Peepholes and Other Perverse Objects. A Psychoanalytic Look at Luis Bunuel's Belle de jour / Andrea Sabbadini 117

8. Bunuel against 'Bunuel': Reading the Landscape of Fanaticism in La Voie lactee / Ian Christie 128

9. The Indiscreet Charms of the Bourgeoises and Other Women / Peter William Evans 143

Part 4 The Bunuel World

10. The Constant of Exile in Bunuel / Victor Fuentes 159

11. Scenes of Liturgy and Perversion in Bunuel / Vicente Sanchez Biosca 173

12. Luis Bunuel, or Ways of Disturbing Spectatorship / Laura M. Martins 187.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Filmography: pages [198]-199.

ISBN:

1844570029

1844570037

OCLC:

54964115