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* Presents a previously unpublished interview with Luis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
About the author
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).
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