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Luis Bunuel: A Critical Biography (Da Capo Paperback) by J. Francisco Aranda; David Robinson is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Luis Bunuel: A Critical Biography (Da Capo Paperback) about?

This is the first major consideration of the life and films of the great director, Louis Buuel. The distinguished Spanish film critic and author, Francisco Aranda, traces Buuel's phenomenal career of more than forty yearsfrom the sensational classics Un Chien andalou in 1929 and L'Age D'or in 1930 to the Oscar-winning Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie in 1972 and Le Fantme de la Libert in 1974. Focusing initially on Buuel's formative days as a student in the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid and his friendships with Federico Garcia Lorca, Josse Ortega y Gasset, and Salvador Dal, Aranda discusses the development of Buuel's surrealist preoccupations through the use of important texts and cinema critiques written by him in the 1920s.Buuel's collaboration in Paris with Dal on Un Chien andalou (the first surrealist film, which shocked audiences throughout the world) and L'Age d'or (where the theater was attacked and closed by enraged rightists) are described in full, as are the stark documentaries that have been neglected until Las Hurdes and Espaa leal, en armas! And we are presented with painstaking analyses of the Mexican comedies (once dismissed by critics as his bad films) and

Author

J. Francisco Aranda; David Robinson

Publisher

Da Capo Press, Incorporated

Published

1976

Language

EN

ISBN

9780306707544

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Linguistics