Luis Buñuel : new readings /

This text ranges widely over key films and moments from stages of Luis Buñuel's career. It locates and re-appraises Buñuel's films with particular emphasis on the national cinemas and varied cultures with which he was identified.

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Other Authors: Santaolalla, Isabel, Evans, Peter William
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : BFI, 2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • Early years: Lost and found : Buñuel, L'Âge d'or and surrealism / Paul Hammond ; A serious experiment : Land without bread, 1933 / Mercè Ibarz ; The decisive moments of Buñuel's time in the United States : 1938-40, an analysis of previously unpublished letters / Javier Herrera Navarro
  • Mexico: Buñuel's box of subaltern tricks : technique in Los olvidados / Stephen Hart ; Hybrid culture and acoustic imagination : the case of Robinson Crusoe / Marvin D'Lugo ; Domination and appropriation in The young one / Isabel Santaolalla
  • Late Buñuel: Of boxes, peepholes, and other perverse objects : a psychoanalytic look at Luis Buñuel's Belle de jour / Andrea Sabbadini. Buñuel against 'Buñuel' : reading the landscape of fanaticism in La Voie lactée / Ian Christie. The indiscreet charms of the Bourgeoises and other women / Peter William Evans
  • The Buñuel world: The constant of exile in Buñuel / Victor Fuentes. Scenes of liturgy and perversion in Buñuel / Vicente Sánchez Biosca. Luis Buñuel, or ways of disturbing spectatorship / Laura M. Martins.