A Companion to Luis Buñuel

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 Garcia Lorca and Carlos Saura (2004), Julio Medem (2007) and Walk, Don't Run: The Cinema of Richard Linklater (2013). Julian Daniel Gutierrez 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 Almodovar, Hector Babenco, Luis Bunuel or Lucrecia Martel. He is the author of Queering Bunuel: Sexual Dissidence and Psychoanalysis in his Mexican and Spanish Cinema (2008).

Contributors viii Acknowledgments xviii Introduction: The "Criminal" Life of Luis Bunuel 1 Rob Stone and Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla Part One An Aragonese Dog 59 1 Interview with Juan Luis Bunuel 61 Rob Stone 2 Luis Bunuel and the Politics of Self-Presentation 79 Julie Jones 3 Bunuel, Master Pyrotechnician: The Role of Firearms in His Cinema 98 Guy H. Wood and Javier Herrera Navarro 4 Bunuel's 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: Bunuel's Surrealist Time-Image 156 Ramona Fotiade 7 L'Age d'or 172 Agustin Sanchez Vidal 8 Bunuel 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 Bunuel's Mexican Films and Interdisciplinary Visuality (1940s and 1950s) 205 Erica Segre 10 Out of Place, Out of Synch: Errant Movement and Rhythm in Bunuel's Mexican Comedies 226 Tom Whittaker 11 Susana: Melodrama and the Voluptuosity of Destruction 240 Maria Pilar Rodriguez 12 Young Outlaws and Marginal Lives in Latin American Cinema: The Landmark of Bunuel's Los olvidados 255 Ana Morana Part Four Strange Passions 277 13 The Creative Process of Robinson Crusoe: Exile, Loneliness, and Humanism 279 Amparo Martinez 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 Bunuel's Cela s'appelle l'aurore, La Mort en ce jardin, and La Fievre monte a El Pao 340 Ernesto R. Acevedo-Munoz 17 Bunuel Goes Medieval: From Sewing to Cervantes and the Vagina Dentata 362 Sherry Velasco Part Five An Exterminating Angel 379 18 The Galdos Intertext in Viridiana 381 Sally Faulkner 19 Spectral Cinema: Le Journal d'une femme de chambre 399 Kate Griffiths 20 Between God and the Machine: Bunuel's Cine-Miracles 414 Libby Saxton 21 The Road and the Room: Narrative Drive in the Films of Luis Bunuel 431 Marsha Kinder Part Six Discretion and Desire 455 22 On a Road to Nowhere: Parodic Movement as Time-Image in La Voie lactee and Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie 457 Sheldon Penn 23 The Intertextual Presence of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Belle de jour 479 Arnaud Duprat de Montero 24 Splitting Doubles: Angela Molina and the Art of Screen Acting in Cet obscur objet du desir 494 Peter William Evans 25 Bunuel and Historical Reason 509 Cristina Moreiras-Menor 26 Through a Fractal Lens: New Perspectives on the Narratives of Luis Bunuel 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 Bunuel's "Irrationality" on Hiroshi Teshigahara's "Documentary-fantasy" 572 Felicity Gee 30 Luis Bunuel's Angel and Maya Deren's Meshes: Trance and the Cultural Imaginary 590 Susan McCabe Filmography 608 Index 624