A Companion to Luis Bu?uel (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Stone, Rob; Gutiérrez-Albilla, Julián Daniel

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Produktbeschreibung

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 Buñuel * 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studies, Hispanic studies, Surrealism, and theoretical concepts such as those of Gilles Deleuze * Presents a previously unpublished interview with Luis Buñuel's son, Juan Luis Buñuel

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: For Dummies
• Seitenzahl: 656
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118323144
• Artikelnr.: 37758756

Autorenporträt

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 Spanish Cinema (2001), The Wounded Throat: Flamenco in the Works of Federico García Lorca and Carlos Saura (2004), Julio Medem (2007) and Walk, Don't Run: The Cinema of Richard Linklater (2013). Julián Daniel Gutiérrez 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 Almodóvar, Hector Babenco, Luis Buñuel or Lucrecia Martel. He is the author of Queering Buñuel: Sexual Dissidence and Psychoanalysis in his Mexican and Spanish Cinema (2008).

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Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xviii
Introduction: The "Criminal" Life of Luis Buñuel 1
Rob Stone and Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla
Part One An Aragonese Dog 59
1 Interview with Juan Luis Buñuel 61
Rob Stone
2 Luis Buñuel and the Politics of Self-Presentation 79
Julie Jones
3 Buñuel, Master Pyrotechnician: The Role of Firearms in His Cinema 98
Guy H. Wood and Javier Herrera Navarro
4 Buñuel's Critique of Nationalism: A Migratory Aesthetic? 116
Mieke Bal
Part Two A Golden Age 139
5 Surreal Souls: Un chien andalou and Early French Film Theory 141
Sarah Cooper
6 Fixed-Explosive: Buñuel's Surrealist Time-Image 156
Ramona Fotiade
7 L'Âge d'or 172
Agustín Sánchez Vidal
8 Buñuel Entomographer: From Las Hurdes to Robinson Crusoe 188
Tom Conley
Part Three The Forgotten One 203
9 The Complicit Eye: Directorial and Ocular Paradigms in Luis Buñuel's
Mexican Films and Interdisciplinary Visuality (1940s and 1950s) 205
Erica Segre
10 Out of Place, Out of Synch: Errant Movement and Rhythm in Buñuel's
Mexican Comedies 226
Tom Whittaker
11 Susana: Melodrama and the Voluptuosity of Destruction 240
María Pilar Rodríguez
12 Young Outlaws and Marginal Lives in Latin American Cinema: The Landmark
of Buñuel's Los olvidados 255
Ana Moraña
Part Four Strange Passions 277
13 The Creative Process of Robinson Crusoe: Exile, Loneliness, and Humanism
279
Amparo Martínez Herranz
14 The Cinematic Labor of Affect: Urbanity and Sentimental Education in El
bruto and Ensayo de un crimen 302
Geoffrey Kantaris
15 Stars in the Wilderness: La Mort en ce jardin 324
Sarah Leahy
16 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
340
Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz
17 Buñuel Goes Medieval: From Sewing to Cervantes and the Vagina Dentata
362
Sherry Velasco
Part Five An Exterminating Angel 379
18 The Galdós Intertext in Viridiana 381
Sally Faulkner
19 Spectral Cinema: Le Journal d'une femme de chambre 399
Kate Griffiths
20 Between God and the Machine: Buñuel's Cine-Miracles 414
Libby Saxton
21 The Road and the Room: Narrative Drive in the Films of Luis Buñuel 431
Marsha Kinder
Part Six Discretion and Desire 455
22 On a Road to Nowhere: Parodic Movement as Time-Image in La Voie lactée
and Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie 457
Sheldon Penn
23 The Intertextual Presence of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Belle de jour 479
Arnaud Duprat de Montero
24 Splitting Doubles: Ángela Molina and the Art of Screen Acting in Cet
obscur objet du désir 494
Peter William Evans
25 Buñuel and Historical Reason 509
Cristina Moreiras-Menor
26 Through a Fractal Lens: New Perspectives on the Narratives of Luis
Buñuel 518
Wendy Everett
Part Seven And in the Spring 535
27 Mutilation, Misogyny, and Murder: Surrealist Violence or Torture Porn?
537
Paul Begin
28 Inside/Outside: Space and Sexual Behavior in Belle de jour and La
Pianiste 554
Jimmy Hay
29 Surrealist Legacies: The Inf luence of Luis Buñuel's "Irrationality" on
Hiroshi Teshigahara's "Documentary-fantasy" 572
Felicity Gee
30 Luis Buñuel's Angel and Maya Deren's Meshes: Trance and the Cultural
Imaginary 590
Susan McCabe
Filmography 608
Index 624

Rezensionen

"This attractive and meticulously produced companion is a major contribution to Buñuel studies ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. All Bunuel scholars and specialized collections." (Choice, 1 November 2013)