Luis Bunuel

by Evans, Peter William; Santaolalla, Isabel

• ISBN13: 9781844570027
• ISBN10: 1844570029
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-01
• Publisher: British Film Inst

Summary

Luis Buntilde;uel (1900-83) was one of the world's great film-makers. Always controversial, his first film, Un Chien andalou (1928), which he referred to as a 'call to murder', was a savage Surrealist experiment. L'Age d'or (1930), his second, was banned in Paris after its initial screening, which had led to violent disturbances. Thereafter, his films continued to challenge, provoke and subvert social conventions in their searching analyses of human desire. Luis Buntilde;uel: New Readings ranges widely over key films and moments from all stages of the director's career: the early years in Spain and France, the middle period in Mexico and the USA, and the return to Europe, where he made late masterpieces like Belle de Jour (1966) and Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972). Twenty years after his death, the time is ripe for a re-evaluation of Buntilde;uel's legacy. Through theoretically informed discussions of individual films and dominant tendencies, as well as through more biographically orientated perspectives (including newly discovered correspondence), this book locates and re-appraises Buntilde;uel's films with particular emphasis on the national cinemas and varied cultures with which he was identified. These new readings show that Buntilde;uel's significance and impact remain undiminished by the passage of time.

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)
Mercè 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 An Analysis of Previously Unpublished Letters	43	(22)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 Buñuel's Belle de jour	117	(11)
Andrea Sabbadini
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