Book description
A Companion to Luis Buñuel presents a collection of critical
readings by many of the foremost film scholars that examines and
reassesses myriad facets of world-renowned filmmaker Luis Buñuel's
life, works, and cinematic themes.
- A collection of critical readings that examine and reassess the
controversial filmmaker's life, works, and cinematic themes
- Features readings from several of the most highly-regarded experts
on the cinema of Buñuel
- Includes a multidisciplinary range of approaches from experts in
film studies, Hispanic studies, Surrealism, and theoretical concepts
such as those of Gilles Deleuze
- Presents a previously unpublished interview with Luis Buñuel's
son, Juan Luis Buñuel
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 numerous film books, including 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).
