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Luis
Bunuel's the Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Cambridge Film
Handbooks)
By
Marsha Kinder (Editor)
Book
Description The first collection of critical essays on Luis
Bunuel's 1972 Oscar-winning masterpiece, The Discreet Charm
of the Bourgeoisie, this anthology brings fresh perspectives
to the most sophisticated film of this director whose narrative
experimentation was some of the world's most distinguished scholars
on Bunuel and Spanish cinema with new voices in cultural theory,
this volume helps us to rethink not only The Discreet Charm
of the Bourgeoisie, but also Bunuel's entire body of work .
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L'Age
D'or (B.F.I. Film Classics)
By
Paul Hammond, Luis Bunuel, Salvador Dali
If
you haven't seen L'Age D'or, you're missing out on one of the
great classics of cinematic surrealism. Directed by the great
Luis Buñuel and written by Buñuel and Salvador Dali, L'Age D'or
is rife with nonsensical dialogue and bizarre, disjunctive images.
In it, romantic lovers prostrate themselves before statues,
Jesus appears as a monstrous hedonist, and the acts of copulation
and defecation are linked. The film is alternately shocking,
haunting, and outrageously funny.
Paul
Hammond's guide to L'Age D'or is as twisty and elliptical as
the film itself. As he walks us through its "plot," his enthusiastic
and punning prose provides data about the making of the film,
Buñuel and Dali's peculiar obsessions, the Freudian underpinnings
of the work, and the meaning of its images, particularly of
its chief metaphor, the scorpion. --Raphael Shargel
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An
Unspeakable Betrayal: Selected Writings of Luis Bunuel
By
Luis Bunuel, Jean-Claude Carriere, Garrett White
Publishers
Weekly "In this collection, Bunuel eloquently proves to be an
intellectual and an ideologue and a jokester as well."
Sunday Tribune (Dublin) "This book will be treasured by anyone
who cares about cinema."
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The
Films of Luis Bunuel : Subjectivity and Desire (Oxford Hispanic
Studies)
By
Peter William Evans
This
is a major new study of the films of Luis Bunuel, surrealist
scourge of the bourgeosie and enduring influence on European
cinema. The book is unique in offering an extended analysis
of Bunuel's films in the context of contemporary debates in
film studies, focusing in particular on questions of subjectivity
and desire. Throughout, Bunuel's films are viewed as both the
brilliant, subversive expressions of the director's fantasies
and obsessions and as reflections of wider cultural norms and
preoccupations. Making use of psychoanalysis and gender theory,
Peter Evans explores Bunuel's characteristic thematics of transgression
and his status as exile of outsider. The whole range of his
work is discussed, from the critically neglected "bread and
butter" Mexican melodramas of the 1950s to such classics of
European cinema as The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, That
Obscure Object of Desire, and Belle de Jour. Accessible, lively,
and compelling, The Films of Luis Bunuel provides a much-needed
revaluation of one of the world's greatest film-makers.
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