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A Companion to Luis Buñuel

A Companion to Luis Buñuel

Edwards, Gwynne

Paperback

Series: Monografías a, Book 210

Literary CriticismFilm StudiesFilmmaking

ISBN10: 1855662051
ISBN13: 9781855662056
Publisher: Boydell Pr
Published: Mar 18 2010
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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.

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