| Description |
xvii, 637 p. : ill. |
| Series |
Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directors
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Includes filmography. |
| Contents |
Introduction: the "criminal" life of Luis Bunel / Rob Stone and Julian Daniel Gutierrez Albilla -- An Aragonese dog. Interview with Juan Luis Bunuel / Rob Stone -- Luis Bunuel and the politics of self-presentation / Julie Jones -- Bunuel, master pyrotechnician: the role of firearms in his cinema / Guy Wood and Javier Herrera -- Bunuel'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: Bunuel's surrealist time-image / Ramona Fotiade -- L'Age d'or / Agustin Sanchez Vidal -- Bunuel entomographer / Tom Conley -- The forgotten one. The complicit eye: directorial and ocular paradigms in Luis Bunuel's Mexican films and interdisciplinary visuality (1940s and 1950s) / Erica Segre -- Out of place, out of synch: errant movement and rhythm in Bunuel'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 Bunuel's Cela s'appelle l'aurore, La mort en ce jardin and La fievre monte a El Pao / Ernesto R. Acevedo-Munoz -- Bunuel goes medieval: from sewing to Cervantes and The vagina dentata / Sherry Velasco -- An exterminating angel. The Galdos intertext in Viridiana / Sally Faulkner -- Spectral cinema: Bunuel'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 Bunuel / Marsha Kinder -- Discretion and desire. On a road to nowhere: parodic movement as time-image in La voie lactee 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: Angela Molina and the art of screen acting in Cet obscur objet du desir / Peter William Evans -- Bunuel and historical reason / Cristina Moreiras -- Through a fractal lens: new perspectives on the narratives of Luis Bunuel / 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 Bunuel's "Irrationality" on Hiroshi Teshigahara's "Documentary-fantasy" / Felicity Gee -- Luis Bunuel's Angel and Maya Deren's Meshes: the future of surrealism, trance and the cultural iImaginary / Susan McCabe. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Bunuel, Luis, 1900-1983 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Stone, Rob.
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Gutierrez-Albilla, Julian Daniel.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9781444336337 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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9781118323106 (electronic bk.) |
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