E-raamat: Companion to Luis Bu uel

Contributors viii

Acknowledgments xviii

Introduction: The Criminal Life of Luis Buńuel 1
Rob Stone and Juliįn Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla

Part One An Aragonese Dog 59

1 Interview with Juan Luis Buńuel 61
Rob Stone

2 Luis Buńuel and the Politics of Self-Presentation 79
Julie Jones

3 Buńuel, Master Pyrotechnician: The Role of Firearms in His Cinema 98
Guy H. Wood and Javier Herrera Navarro

4 Buńuels Critique of Nationalism: A Migratory Aesthetic? 116
Mieke Bal

Part Two A Golden Age 139

5 Surreal Souls: Un chien andalou and Early French Film Theory 141
Sarah Cooper

6 Fixed-Explosive: Buńuels Surrealist Time-Image 156
Ramona Fotiade

7 LĀge dor 172
Agustķn Sįnchez Vidal

8 Buńuel Entomographer: From Las Hurdes to Robinson Crusoe 188
Tom Conley

Part Three The Forgotten One 203

9 The Complicit Eye: Directorial and Ocular Paradigms in Luis Buńuels
Mexican Films and Interdisciplinary Visuality (1940s and 1950s) 205
Erica Segre

10 Out of Place, Out of Synch: Errant Movement and Rhythm in Buńuels
Mexican Comedies 226
Tom Whittaker

11 Susana: Melodrama and the Voluptuosity of Destruction 240
Marķa Pilar Rodrķguez

12 Young Outlaws and Marginal Lives in Latin American Cinema: The Landmark
of Buńuels Los olvidados 255
Ana Morańa

Part Four Strange Passions 277

13 The Creative Process of Robinson Crusoe: Exile, Loneliness, and Humanism
279
Amparo Martķnez Herranz

14 The Cinematic Labor of Affect: Urbanity and Sentimental Education in El
bruto and Ensayo de un crimen 302
Geoffrey Kantaris

15 Stars in the Wilderness: La Mort en ce jardin 324
Sarah Leahy

16 Transitional Triptych: The Traps of International Cinemas in Buńuels
Cela sappelle laurore, La Mort en ce jardin, and La Fičvre monte ą El Pao
340
Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muńoz

17 Buńuel Goes Medieval: From Sewing to Cervantes and the Vagina Dentata
362
Sherry Velasco

Part Five An Exterminating Angel 379

18 The Galdós Intertext in Viridiana 381
Sally Faulkner

19 Spectral Cinema: Le Journal dune femme de chambre 399
Kate Griffiths

20 Between God and the Machine: Buńuels Cine-Miracles 414
Libby Saxton

21 The Road and the Room: Narrative Drive in the Films of Luis Buńuel 431
Marsha Kinder

Part Six Discretion and Desire 455

22 On a Road to Nowhere: Parodic Movement as Time-Image in La Voie lactée
and Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie 457
Sheldon Penn

23 The Intertextual Presence of Lewis Carrolls Alice in Belle de jour 479
Arnaud Duprat de Montero

24 Splitting Doubles: Įngela Molina and the Art of Screen Acting in Cet
obscur objet du désir 494
Peter William Evans

25 Buńuel and Historical Reason 509
Cristina Moreiras-Menor

26 Through a Fractal Lens: New Perspectives on the Narratives of Luis Buńuel
518
Wendy Everett

Part Seven And in the Spring 535

27 Mutilation, Misogyny, and Murder: Surrealist Violence or Torture Porn?
537
Paul Begin

28 Inside/Outside: Space and Sexual Behavior in Belle de jour and La
Pianiste 554
Jimmy Hay

29 Surrealist Legacies: The Inf luence of Luis Buńuels Irrationality on
Hiroshi Teshigaharas Documentary-fantasy 572
Felicity Gee

30 Luis Buńuels Angel and Maya Derens Meshes: Trance and the Cultural
Imaginary 590
Susan McCabe

Filmography 608

Index 624

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 Garcķa Lorca and Carlos Saura (2004), Julio Medem (2007) and Walk, Don't Run: The Cinema of Richard Linklater (2013).

Juliįn 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 Buńuel or Lucrecia Martel. He is the author of Queering Buńuel: Sexual Dissidence and Psychoanalysis in his Mexican and Spanish Cinema (2008).