Luis Bunuel: New Readings

by Santaolalla, Isabel; Evans, Peter William

• ISBN13: 9781844570034
• ISBN10: 1844570037
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-05
• Publisher: British Film Institute

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Notes on Contributors	viii
Foreword: A Desperate Call for Murder	xi
Juan Luis Buñuel
Introduction: Luis Buñuel - Twenty Years After	1	(12)
Peter William Evans and Isabel Santaolalla
PART ONE: EARLY YEARS
1. Lost and Found: Buñuel, L'Âge d'or and Surrealism	13	(14)
Paul Hammond
2. A Serious Experiment: Land Without Bread, 1933	27	(16)
Mercé Ibarz
3. The Decisive Moments of Buñuel's Time in the United States: 1938-40. An Analysis of Previously Unpublished Letters	43	(22)
Javier Herrera Navarro
PART TWO: MEXICO
4. Buñuel's Box of Subaltern Tricks: Technique in Los olvidados	65	(15)
Stephen Hart
5. Hybrid Culture and Acoustic Imagination: The Case of Robinson Crusoe	80	(17)
Marvin D'Lugo
6. Domination and Appropriation in The Young One	97	(20)
Isabel Santaolalla
PART THREE: LATE BUÑUEL
7. Of Boxes, Peepholes and Other Perverse Objects. A Psychoanalytic Look at Luis Bunuel's Belle de jour	117	(11)
Andrea Saladini
8. Buñuel against 'Buñuel': Reading the Landscape of Fanaticism in La Voie lactée	128	(15)
Ian Christie
9. The Indiscreet Charms of the Bourgeoises and Other Women	143
Peter William Evans
PART FOUR: THE BUÑUEL WORLD
10. The Constant of Exile in Buñuel	159	(14)
Victor Fuentes
11. Scenes of Liturgy and Perversion in Buñuel	173	(14)
Vicente Sánchez Biosca
12. Luis Buñuel, or Ways of Disturbing Spectatorship	187	(11)
Laura M. Martins
Filmography	198	(3)
Index	201