Luis Buñuel : the red years, 1929-1939 / Román Gubern and Paul Hammond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gubern, Román, 1934-

Contributor:

Hammond, Paul, 1947 July 19-

Series:

Wisconsin film studies.

Wisconsin film studies

Standardized Title:

Años rojos de Luis Buñuel. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture producers and directors--Spain--Biography.

Motion picture producers and directors.

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

Buñuel, Luis.

Buñuel, Luis, 1900-1983--Political and social views.

Physical Description:

xi, 443 p. : ill.

Edition:

English ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The turbulent years of the 1930s were of profound importance in the life of Spanish film director Luis Buñuel (1900-1983). He joined the Surrealist movement in 1929 but by 1932 had renounced it and embraced Communism. During the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), he played an integral role in disseminating film propaganda in Paris for the Spanish Republican cause. Luis Buñuel: The Red Years, 1929-1939 investigates Buñuel's commitment to making the politicized documentary Land without Bread (1933) and his key role as an executive producer at Filmófono in Madrid, where he was responsible in 1935-36 for making four commercial features that prefigure his work in Mexico after 1946. As for the republics of France and Spain between which Buñuel shuttled during the 1930s, these became equally embattled as left and right totalitarianisms fought to wrest political power away from a debilitated capitalism. Where it exists, the literature on this crucial decade of the film director's life is scant and relies on Buñuel's own self-interested accounts of that complex period. Román Gubern and Paul Hammond have undertaken extensive archival research in Europe and the United States and evaluated Buñuel's accounts and those of historians and film writers to achieve a portrait of Buñuel's "Red Years" that abounds in new information.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1. The Militant Surrealist

2. The Production of L'Âge d'or

3. A Fecund Scandal

4. A Brief Stay in Hollywood

5. The Coming of the Spanish Second Republic

6. A Stormy Year

7. Time-Serving at Paramount-Joinville

8. The Mutations of L'Âge d'or and Other Projects

9. From Las Hurdes to Terre sans pain

10. Dubbing at Warner Bros.

11. Commerce, Art, and Politics

12. Filmófono

13. The Outbreak of the Spanish Civil War

14. A Two-Year Mission in Paris

15. Final Flight to the United States

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Originally published in Spain as Los años rojos de Luis Buñuel.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-417) and index.

ISBN:

9786613486165

9781283486163

1283486164

9780299284732

0299284735

OCLC:

780370984