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* Presents a previously unpublished interview with Luis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
Sobre o autor
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).