A Companion to Luis Buñuel

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

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).

"This attractive and meticulously produced companion is a major contribution to Buñ;uel studies ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. All Bunuel scholars and specialized collections." ( Choice , 1 November 2013)