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This text presents a study of the films of Luis Bunuel, surrealist scourge of the bourgeoisie. The book discusses Bunuel in the context of the most recent debates in film studies and presents new readings on the whole range of his work, from the Mexican movies 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". This study should interest scholars and students of film studies and Hispanic studies as well as general readers interested in film and Bunuel in particular.
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'Evans interprets the films as if they are dreams, teasing out their hidden meanings. It's his ingenuity in doing so that keeps The Films of Luis Bunuel afloat.'Geoffrey Macnab, Literary Review
This is certainly a book for the theorist and you don't need to know Bunnel's films to benefit from its contents. (Film)
Intelligent and eclectic study of cinema's great taboo-breaker. (Sight and Sound)
a brilliant start to the new series on Hispanic themes launched by OUP...A must for any Bunuel bibliography (Forum for Modern Language Studies)
One of the principal virtues of Peter Evan's landmark study is its concern to provide a multiple readership in hispanism and film studies with a precise set of indicators to hispanic contexts and traditions that inform Bunuel's films. What emerges is an appreciation of Bunuel's achievement as an auteur that is considerably fuller and more nuanced than previous accounts. (Times Higher Education Supplement)
Exhaustive and compelling book. This important study is a concise, informed and challenging work which should invigorate discussion about the most iconoclastic of directors. Peter William Evans has thrown the films of Luis Bunuel to the wolves of contemporary critical debates in film studies. It is a fight which the sly, old Aragonese dog would have relished. (Rob Stone, University of Aberystwyth, Tesserae 2 (1996))
Evans's perceptive discussion of the films' cinematic intertextuality is criss-crossed with enlightening literary associations, from Golden-Age authors and Buñuel's French and Spanish contemporaries to gothic novelists and Latin-American writers ... useful in providing a unified interpretation of Bunñuel's work and gives many new insights into the individual films under discussion. (Xon de Ros, King's College, London, MLR, 91.4, 1996)
Peter Evans works in generous swathes of thought, bringing what seems to be a large amount of learning and clarity to his subject. (British Bulletin of Publications, No. 95, October 1996)
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This is certainly a book for the theorist and you don't need to know Bunnel's films to benefit from its contents. (Film)
Intelligent and eclectic study of cinema's great taboo-breaker. (Sight and Sound)
a brilliant start to the new series on Hispanic themes launched by OUP...A must for any Bunuel bibliography (Forum for Modern Language Studies)
One of the principal virtues of Peter Evan's landmark study is its concern to provide a multiple readership in hispanism and film studies with a precise set of indicators to hispanic contexts and traditions that inform Bunuel's films. What emerges is an appreciation of Bunuel's achievement as an auteur that is considerably fuller and more nuanced than previous accounts. (Times Higher Education Supplement)
Exhaustive and compelling book. This important study is a concise, informed and challenging work which should invigorate discussion about the most iconoclastic of directors. Peter William Evans has thrown the films of Luis Bunuel to the wolves of contemporary critical debates in film studies. It is a fight which the sly, old Aragonese dog would have relished. (Rob Stone, University of Aberystwyth, Tesserae 2 (1996))
Evans's perceptive discussion of the films' cinematic intertextuality is criss-crossed with enlightening literary associations, from Golden-Age authors and Buñuel's French and Spanish contemporaries to gothic novelists and Latin-American writers ... useful in providing a unified interpretation of Bunñuel's work and gives many new insights into the individual films under discussion. (Xon de Ros, King's College, London, MLR, 91.4, 1996)
Peter Evans works in generous swathes of thought, bringing what seems to be a large amount of learning and clarity to his subject. (British Bulletin of Publications, No. 95, October 1996)
Peter William Evans is Professor of Spanish at the University of Nottingham.
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- PublisherClarendon Press
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0198151934
- ISBN 13 9780198151937
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages214
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