A companion to Luis Buñuel / edited by Rob Stone and Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stone, Rob.

Gutiérrez-Albilla, Julián Daniel.

Series:

Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors

Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directors

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Buñuel, Luis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (657 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A Companion to Luis Buñuel presents a collection of critical readings by many of the foremost film scholars that examines and reassesses myriad facets of world-renowned filmmaker Luis Buñuel's life, works, and cinematic themes. A collection of critical readings that examine and reassess the controversial filmmaker's life, works, and cinematic themes Features readings from several of the most highly-regarded experts on the cinema of BuñuelIncludes a multidisciplinary range of approaches from experts in film studies, Hispanic studies, Surrealism, and theoretically

Contents:

Introduction: the "criminal" life of Luis Buñel / Rob Stone and Julian Daniel Gutiérrez Albilla

An Aragonese dog. Interview with Juan Luis Buñuel / Rob Stone

Luis Buñuel and the politics of self-presentation / Julie Jones

Buñuel, master pyrotechnician: the role of firearms in his cinema / Guy Wood and Javier Herrera

Buñuel's critique of nationalism: a migratory aesthetic? / Mieke Bal

A golden age. Surreal souls: Un chien andalou and early French film theory / Sarah Cooper

Fixed-explosive: Buñuel's surrealist time-image / Ramona Fotiade

L'Age d'or / Agustin Sanchez Vidal

Buñuel entomographer / Tom Conley

The forgotten one. The complicit eye: directorial and ocular paradigms in Luis Buñuel's Mexican films and interdisciplinary visuality (1940s and 1950s) / Erica Segre

Out of place, out of synch: errant movement and rhythm in Buñuel's Mexican comedies / Tom Whittaker

Susana, aka Demonio y carne: melodrama and the voluptuosity of destruction / Maria Pilar Rodriguez

Young outlaws and marginal lives in Latin American cinema: the landmark of Los olvidados / Ana Morana

Strange passions. The creative process of Robinson Crusoe: exile, solitude, humanism / Amparo Martinez Herranz

The cinematic labour of affect: urbanity and sentimental education in El Bruto and Ensayo de un crimen / Geoffrey Kantaris

Stars in the wilderness: La mort en ce jardin / Sarah Leahy

Transitional triptych: the traps of international cinemas in Buñuel's Cela s'appelle l'aurore, La mort en ce jardin and La fièvre monte à El Pao / Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz

Buñuel goes medieval: from sewing to Cervantes and The vagina dentata / Sherry Velasco

An exterminating angel. The Galdós intertext in Viridiana / Sally Faulkner

Spectral cinema: Buñuel's Le Journal d'une femme de chambre / Kate Griffiths

Between God and The Machine: Bunuel's Cine-Miracles / Libby Saxton

The road and the room: narrative drive in the films of Luis Buñuel / Marsha Kinder

Discretion and desire. On a road to nowhere: parodic movement as time-image in La voie lactée and Le charme discret de la bourgeoise / Sheldon Penn

The intertextual presence of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Belle de jour / Arnaud Duprat de Montero

Splitting doubles: Ángela Molina and the art of screen acting in Cet obscur objet du désir / Peter William Evans

Buñuel and historical reason / Cristina Moreiras

Through a fractal lens: new perspectives on the narratives of Luis Buñuel / Wendy Everett

And in the Spring. Mutilation, misogyny, and murder: surrealist violence or torture porn? / Paul Begin

Inside/outside: space and sexual behaviour in Belle de Jour and La Pianiste / Jimmy Hay

Surrealist legacies: the influence of Luis Buñuel's "Irrationality" on Hiroshi Teshigahara's "Documentary-fantasy" / Felicity Gee

Luis Buñuel's Angel and Maya Deren's Meshes: the future of surrealism, trance and the cultural iImaginary / Susan McCabe.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.

ISBN:

1-78539-401-0

1-118-32308-4

1-118-32488-9

1-299-24147-6

1-118-32310-6

OCLC:

828938837