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studies, Hispanic studies, Surrealism, and theoretical concepts such as those of Gilles Deleuze * Presents a previously unpublished interview with Luis Buñuel's son, Juan Luis Buñuel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: John Wiley & Sons
• 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).

Inhaltsangabe

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)