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Luis Bunuel (1900-83) was one of the world's great film-makers.
Always controversial, his first film, Un Chien andalou (1928),
which he referred to as a 'call to murder', was a savage Surrealist
experiment. L'Age d'or (1930), his second, was banned in Paris
after its initial screening, which had led to violent disturbances.
Thereafter, his films continued to challenge, provoke and subvert
social conventions in their searching analyses of human desire.
Luis Bunuel: New Readings ranges widely over key films and moments
from all stages of the director's career: the early years in Spain
and France, the middle period in Mexico and the USA, and the return
to Europe, where he made late masterpieces like Belle de Jour
(1966) and Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972).
Twenty years after his death, the time is ripe for a re-evaluation
of Bunuel's legacy. Through theoretically informed discussions of
individual films and dominant tendencies, as well as through more
biographically orientated perspectives (including newly discovered
correspondence), this book locates and re-appraises Bunuel's films
with particular emphasis on the national cinemas and varied
cultures with which he was identified. These new readings show that
Bunuel's significance and impact remain undiminished by the passage
of time.
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