Luis Bunuel: New Readings

by Peter William Evans (Editor), Isabel Santaolalla (Editor)

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781844570034
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/05/2004
Series:	Teaching Film and Media Studies
Edition description:	2004
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.94(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

PETER WILLIAM EVANS is Emeritus Professor of Film at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. His publications include Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1996) and Written on the Wind (2013) in the BFI Film Classics series; Luis Buñuel: New Readings (co-edited, 2004), and Carol Reed (2005).

Isabel Santaolalla is Professor of Spanish and Film Studies at the University of Roehampton, UK.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	vii
	Notes on Contributors	viii
	Foreword: A Desperate Call for Murder	xi
	Introduction: Luis Bunuel--Twenty Years After	1
Part 1	Early Years
1.	Lost and Found: Bunuel, L'Age d'or and Surrealism	13
2.	A Serious Experiment: Land Without Bread, 1933	27
3.	The Decisive Moments of Bunuel's Time in the United States: 1938-40. An Analysis of Previously Unpublished Letters	43
Part 2	Mexico
4.	Bunuel's Box of Subaltern Tricks: Technique in Los olvidados	65
5.	Hybrid Culture and Acoustic Imagination: The Case of Robinson Crusoe	80
6.	Domination and Appropriation in The Young One	97
Part 3	Late Bunuel
7.	Of Boxes, Peepholes and Other Perverse Objects. A Psychoanalytic Look at Luis Bunuel's Belle de jour	117
8.	Bunuel against 'Bunuel': Reading the Landscape of Fanaticism in La Voie lactee	128
9.	The Indiscreet Charms of the Bourgeoises and Other Women	143
Part 4	The Bunuel World
10.	The Constant of Exile in Bunuel	159
11.	Scenes of Liturgy and Perversion in Bunuel	173
12.	Luis Bunuel, or Ways of Disturbing Spectatorship	187
	Filmography	198
	Index	201