Companion to Luis Bu uel (eBook)

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).

"This attractive and meticulously produced companion is a major
contribution to Buñuel studies ... Summing Up: Highly
recommended. All Bunuel scholars and specialized
collections." (Choice, 1 November 2013)

"A Companion to Luis Buñuel is an
extraordinarily broad and detailed portrait of the master
filmmaker, boasting contributions by some of the very best scholars
in film studies."

Paul Julian Smith, City University of New York

"This multi-faceted volume has a knack for shaking up
received ideas. Thoroughly rethinking Buñuel, it sets his
films free to make their own transformative meanings."

Chris Perriam, University of Manchester

"Drawing on the expertise of international scholars from
different disciplines, A Companion to Luis Buñuel
delivers challenging readings worthy of their enthralling subject.
The scope and originality of these essays greatly enrich discussion
of Buñuel's films."

Isabel Santaolalla, University of Roehampton