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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directorsPublication details: Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.Description: xvii, 637 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.4302/33092 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1998.3.B86 C66 2013eb
Online resources:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.

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.

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