Bunuel And Mexico

Author : Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520239520
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buñuel and Mexico written by Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-11-13 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first extended study of Bunuel's Mexican films, which consititute a significant but neglected part of the great film maker's career.

Author : Charles Ramírez Berg
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477308075
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Classical Mexican Cinema written by Charles Ramírez Berg and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mid-1930s to the late 1950s, Mexican cinema became the most successful Latin American cinema and the leading Spanish-language film industry in the world. Many Cine de Oro (Golden Age cinema) films adhered to the dominant Hollywood model, but a small yet formidable filmmaking faction rejected Hollywood’s paradigm outright. Directors Fernando de Fuentes, Emilio Fernández, Luis Buñuel, Juan Bustillo Oro, Adolfo Best Maugard, and Julio Bracho sought to create a unique national cinema that, through the stories it told and the ways it told them, was wholly Mexican. The Classical Mexican Cinema traces the emergence and evolution of this Mexican cinematic aesthetic, a distinctive film form designed to express lo mexicano. Charles Ramírez Berg begins by locating the classical style’s pre-cinematic roots in the work of popular Mexican artist José Guadalupe Posada at the turn of the twentieth century. He also looks at the dawning of Mexican classicism in the poetics of Enrique Rosas’ El Automóvil Gris, the crowning achievement of Mexico’s silent filmmaking era and the film that set the stage for the Golden Age films. Berg then analyzes mature examples of classical Mexican filmmaking by the predominant Golden Age auteurs of three successive decades. Drawing on neoformalism and neoauteurism within a cultural studies framework, he brilliantly reveals how the poetics of Classical Mexican Cinema deviated from the formal norms of the Golden Age to express a uniquely Mexican sensibility thematically, stylistically, and ideologically.

Author : Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520930483
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buñuel and Mexico written by Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-11-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though Luis Buñuel, one of the most important filmmakers of the twentieth century, spent his most productive years as a director in Mexico, film histories and criticism invariably pay little attention to his work during this period. The only book-length English-language study of Buñuel's Mexican films, this book is the first to explore a significant but neglected area of this filmmaker's distinguished career and thus to fill a gap in our appreciation and understanding of both Buñuel's achievement and the history of Mexican film. Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz considers Buñuel's Mexican films—made between 1947 and 1965—within the context of a national and nationalist film industry, comparing the filmmaker's employment of styles, genres, character types, themes, and techniques to those most characteristic of Mexican cinema. In this study Buñuel's films emerge as a link between the Classical Mexican cinema of the 1930s through the 1950s and the "new" Cinema of the 1960s, flourishing in a time of crisis for the national film industry and introducing some of the stylistic and conceptual changes that would revitalize Mexican cinema.

Author : Marc Ripley
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023185109X
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Search for Belonging written by Marc Ripley and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the foremost Spanish directors of all time, Luis Buñuel’s filmography has been the subject of innumerable studies. Despite the fact that the twenty films he made in Mexico between 1947 and 1965 represent the most prolific stage of his career as a filmmaker, these have remained relatively neglected in writing on Buñuel and his work. This book focuses on nine of the director’s films made in Mexico in order to show that a concerted focus on space, an important aspect of the films’ narratives that is often intimated by scholars, yet rarely developed, can unlock new philosophical meaning in this rich body of work. Although in recent years Buñuel’s Mexican films have begun to enjoy a greater presence in criticism on the director, they are often segregated according to their perceived critical value, effectively creating two substrands of work: the independent movies and the studio potboilers. The interdisciplinary approach of this book unites the two, focusing on films such as Los olvidados, Nazarín, and El ángel exterminador alongside La Mort en ce jardin, The Young One, and Simón del desierto, among others. In doing so, it avoids the tropes most often associated with Buñuel’s cinema—surrealism, Catholicism, the derision of the bourgeoisie—and the approach most often invoked in analysis of these themes: psychoanalysis. Instead, this book takes inspiration from the fields of human geography, anthropology, and philosophy, applying these to film-focused readings of Buñuel’s Mexican cinema to argue that ultimately these films depict an overriding sense of placelessness, overtly or subliminally enacting a search for belonging that forces the viewer to question what it means to be in place.

Author : Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857716018
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queering Buñuel written by Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albill and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-05-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the father of cinematic Surrealism, extensive critical attention has been devoted to Luis Bunuel's cinema. Much has been written about his first Surrealist films of the 1920s and 1930s and the French art movies of the 1960s and 1970s. However, here for the first time is a queer re-reading of Bunuel's Spanish-language films allowing us to view Bunuel's cinema through a lens of queer spectatorship. Focusing on the films Bunuel produced in Mexico and Spain during the 1950s and 1960s, Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla argues not that Bunuel's films have a homosexual subplot, but that there are multiple forms of identity, subjectivity and sexuality present in these films."Queering Bunuel" brings together the fields of film studies, feminist and queer theory, Hispanic studies, psychoanalysis and art theory. Gutierrez-Albilla succeeds in reconceptualizing Bunuel's Mexican and Spanish films beyond geographical, historical and disciplinary boundaries, questioning not just how we see Bunuel, but also how we see cinema.

Author : Román Gubern
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299284735
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Luis Buñuel written by Román Gubern and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2012-01-04 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The turbulent years of the 1930s were of profound importance in the life of Spanish film director Luis Buñuel (1900–1983). He joined the Surrealist movement in 1929 but by 1932 had renounced it and embraced Communism. During the Spanish Civil War (1936–39), he played an integral role in disseminating film propaganda in Paris for the Spanish Republican cause. Luis Buñuel: The Red Years, 1929–1939 investigates Buñuel’s commitment to making the politicized documentary Land without Bread (1933) and his key role as an executive producer at Filmófono in Madrid, where he was responsible in 1935–36 for making four commercial features that prefigure his work in Mexico after 1946. As for the republics of France and Spain between which Buñuel shuttled during the 1930s, these became equally embattled as left and right totalitarianisms fought to wrest political power away from a debilitated capitalism. Where it exists, the literature on this crucial decade of the film director’s life is scant and relies on Buñuel’s own self-interested accounts of that complex period. Román Gubern and Paul Hammond have undertaken extensive archival research in Europe and the United States and evaluated Buñuel’s accounts and those of historians and film writers to achieve a portrait of Buñuel’s “Red Years” that abounds in new information.

Author : Luis Bunuel
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0345803701
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Last Sigh written by Luis Bunuel and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER'S 100 GREATEST FILM BOOKS OF ALL TIME • A provocative memoir from Luis Buñuel, the Academy Award winning creator of some of modern cinema's most important films, from Un Chien Andalou to The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. Luis Buñuel’s films have the power to shock, inspire, and reinvent our world. Now, in a memoir that carries all the surrealism and subversion of his cinema, Buñuel turns his artistic gaze inward. In swift and generous prose, Buñuel traces the surprising contours of his life, from the Good Friday drumbeats of his childhood to the dreams that inspired his most famous films to his turbulent friendships with Federico García Lorca and Salvador Dalí. His personal narratives also encompass the pressing political issues of his time, many of which still haunt us today—the specter of fascism, the culture wars, the nuclear bomb. Filled with film trivia, framed by Buñuel’s intellect and wit, this is essential reading for fans of cinema and for anyone who has ever wanted to see the world through a surrealist’s eyes.

Author : Joan Mellen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195023992
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World of Luis Buñuel written by Joan Mellen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1978 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Polizzotti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Los Olvidados written by Mark Polizzotti and published by . This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in English to concentrate exclusively on Los Olvidados and it seeks to present a concise but complete overview of the film, its history, production, and influence.

Author : Claudio Isaac
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Midday with Buñuel written by Claudio Isaac and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Intimate photographs from the Isaac family archive complement the writing, and Bryan T. Scoular's careful translation makes this text available for the first time in English. The foreword by James D. Fernandez offers the reader eloquent insight into this " 'biography' of Luis Bunuel, which is structured not by the stepping-stones of his career, but by the self-spun spider's web of his many contradictions, as they are perceived, assimilated, and recorded by a chronicler who is himself always in motion and full of contradictions."" "Part biography, part memoir, Midday with Bunuel brings to life the creative milieu of Mexico City and gives readers a privileged view of the relationship between these two filmmakers."--BOOK JACKET.