A Companion to Luis Bunuel
Published on 30. April 2013
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656 pages
978-1-118-32308-3 (ISBN)
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A Companion to Luis Bunuel presents a collection of critical readings by many of the foremost film scholars that examines and reassesses myriad facets of world-renowned filmmaker Luis Bunuel'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 Bunuel Includes a multidisciplinary range of approaches from experts in film studies, Hispanic studies, Surrealism, and theoretical concepts such as those of Gilles Deleuze Presents a previously unpublished interview with Luis Bunuel's son, Juan Luis Bunuel
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English
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New York
United States
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College/higher education
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978-1-118-32308-3 (9781118323083)
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Rob Stone | Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla
A Companion to Luis Bu?uel
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02/2013
Wiley-Blackwell
€168.99
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Rob Stone | Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla
A Companion to Luis Bu?uel
E-Book
02/2013
Wiley-Blackwell
€168.99
Available for download
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Rob Stone is Professor of European Film in the Department of Art History, Film and Visual Studies at the University of Birmingham where he directs B-Film: The Birmingham Centre for Film Studies. He is the author of numerous film books, including Spanish Cinema (2001), The Wounded Throat: Flamenco in the Works of Federico Garcia Lorca and Carlos Saura (2004), Julio Medem (2007) and Walk, Don't Run: The Cinema of Richard Linklater (2013). Julian Daniel Gutierrez Albilla is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Southern California. He has published on a wide range of Hispanic films including articles and chapters in edited works on Pedro Almodovar, Hector Babenco, Luis Bunuel or Lucrecia Martel. He is the author of Queering Bunuel: Sexual Dissidence and Psychoanalysis in his Mexican and Spanish Cinema (2008).
Content
Acknowledgements Introduction: The 'Criminal' Life of Luis Bunuel Rob Stone and Julian Daniel Gutierrez Albilla List of Contributors List of Illustrations Section One: An Aragonese Dog 1. Interview with Juan Luis Bunuel Rob Stone 2. Luis Bunuel and The Politics of Self-Presentation Julie Jones 3. Bunuel, Master Pyrotechnician: The Role of Firearms in his Cinema Guy Wood and Javier Herrera 4. Bunuel's Critique of Nationalism: A Migratory Aesthetic? Mieke Bal Section Two: A Golden Age 5. Surreal Souls: Un chien andalou and Early French Film Theory Sarah Cooper 6. Fixed-Explosive: Bunuel's Surrealist Time-Image Ramona Fotiade 7. L'Age d'or Agustin Sanchez Vidal 8. Bunuel Entomographer Tom Conley Section Three: The Forgotten One 9. The Complicit Eye: Directorial and Ocular Paradigms in Luis Bunuel's Mexican Films and Interdisciplinary Visuality (1940s and 1950s) Erica Segre 10. Out of Place, Out of Synch: Errant Movement and Rhythm in Bunuel's Mexican Comedies Tom Whittaker 11. Susana, aka Demonio y carne : Melodrama and The Voluptuosity of Destruction Maria Pilar Rodriguez 12. Young Outlaws and Marginal Lives in Latin American Cinema: The Landmark of Los olvidados Ana Morana Section Four: Strange Passions 13. The Creative Process of Robinson Crusoe: Exile, Solitude, Humanism Amparo Martinez Herranz 14. The Cinematic Labour of Affect: Urbanity and Sentimental Education in El Bruto and Ensayo de un Crimen Geoffrey Kantaris 15. Stars in The Wilderness: La Mort en ce jardin Sarah Leahy 16. Transitional Triptych: The Traps of International Cinemas in Bunuel's C ela s'appelle l'aurore, La mort en ce jardin and La fievre monte a El Pao Ernesto R. Acevedo-Munoz 17. Bunuel Goes Medieval: From Sewing to Cervantes and The Vagina Dentata Sherry Velasco Section Five: An Exterminating Angel 18. The Galdos Intertext in Viridiana Sally Faulkner 19. Spectral Cinema: Bunuel's Le Journal d'une femme de chambre Kate Griffiths 20. Between God and The Machine: Bunuel's Cine-Miracles Libby Saxton 21. The Road and The Room: Narrative Drive in The Films of Luis Bunuel Marsha Kinder Section Six: Discretion and Desire 22. On a Road to Nowhere: Parodic Movement as Time-Image in La Voie lactee and Le Charme discret de la bourgeoise Sheldon Penn 23. The Intertextual Presence of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Belle de jour Arnaud Duprat de Montero 24. Splitting Doubles: Angela Molina and The Art of Screen Acting in Cet obscur objet du desir Peter William Evans 25. Bunuel and Historical Reason Cristina Moreiras 26. Through a Fractal Lens: New Perspectives on The Narratives of Luis Bunuel Wendy Everett Section Seven: And in the Spring 27. Mutilation, Misogyny, and Murder: Surrealist Violence or Torture Porn? Paul Begin 28. Inside/Outside: Space and Sexual Behaviour in Belle de Jour and La Pianiste Jimmy Hay 29. Surrealist Legacies: The Influence of Luis Bunuel's 'Irrationality' on Hiroshi Teshigahara's 'Documentary-fantasy' Felicity Gee 30. Luis Bunuel's Angel and Maya Deren's Meshes: The Future of Surrealism, Trance and The Cultural Imaginary Susan McCabe Bibliography Filmography Index