| A Companion to Luis Buñuel Contributor(s): Edwards, Gwynne (Author) |
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ISBN: 1855662051 ISBN-13: 9781855662056 Publisher: Tamesis Books OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - Direction & Production - Literary Criticism | European - Spanish & Portuguese - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism |
| Dewey: 791.430 |
| Series: Monografías a |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.60 lbs) 186 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Luis Buñuel [1900-1983] was one of the truly great film-makers of the twentieth century. Shaped by a repressive Jesuit education and a bourgeois family background, he reacted against both, escaped to Paris, and was soon embraced by André Breton's official surrealist group. His early films are his most aggressive and shocking, the slicing of the eyeball in 'Un Chien andalou' [1929] one of the most memorable episodes in the history of cinema. 'The Forgotten Ones' [1950] and 'He' [1952], made in Mexico, were followed, from 1960, in Spain and France, by the films for which he is best known: 'Viridiana' [1961], 'Belle de jour' [1966], 'Tristana' [1970], 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie' [1972], and 'That Obscure Object of Desire' [1977]. Gwynne Edwards analyses the films in the context of Buñuel's personal obsessions - sex, bourgeois values, and religion - suggesting that the film-maker experienced a degree of sexual inhibition surprising in a surrealist. GWYNNE EDWARDS is Professor of Spanish at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. |
Contributor Bio(s): Edwards, Gwynne: - Gwynne Edwards is a lecturer in Spanish at University of Wales. |