(Ebook) A companion to Luis Buñuel by Buñuel, Luis;Gutiérrez-Albilla, Julián Daniel;Stone, Rob ISBN 9781118323106, 9781118324882, 9781444336337, 9781785394010, 1118323106, 1118324889, 1444336339, 1785394010

(Ebook) A companion to Luis Buñuel by Buñuel, Luis;Gutiérrez-Albilla, Julián Daniel;Stone, Rob ISBN 9781118323106, 9781118324882, 9781444336337, 9781785394010, 1118323106, 1118324889, 1444336339, 1785394010

A Companion to Luis Bunuel presents a collection of critical readings by many of the foremost film scholars that examines and reassesses myriad facets of world-renowned filmmaker Luis Bunuels life, works, and cinematic themes.;Introduction: the "criminal" life of Luis Buñel / Rob Stone and Julian Daniel Gutiérrez Albilla -- An Aragonese dog: interview with Juan Luis Buñuel / Rob Stone -- Luis Buñuel and the politics of self-presentation / Julie Jones -- Buñuel, master pyrotechnician: the role of firearms in his cinema / Guy Wood and Javier Herrera -- Buñuel'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: Buñuel's surrealist time-image / Ramona Fotiade -- L'Age d'or / Agustin Sanchez Vidal -- Buñuel entomographer / Tom Conley -- The forgotten one. The complicit eye: directorial and ocular paradigms in Luis Buñuel's Mexican films and interdisciplinary visuality (1940s and 1950s) / Erica Segre -- Out of place, out of synch: errant movement and rhythm in Buñuel'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 Buñuel's Cela s'appelle l'aurore, La mort en ce jardin and La fièvre monte à El Pao / Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz.