Films of Luis Buï¿½uel Subjectivity and Desire

Name: Films of Luis Buï¿½uel Subjectivity and Desire
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ISBN: 9780198159063

ISBN-10: 0198159064

ISBN-13: 9780198159063

Edition: 1995 (Movie Tie-In)

Authors: Peter William Evans

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This is a major new study of the films of Luis Bunuel, surrealist scourge of the bourgeoisie and enduring influence on European cinema. Uniquely, the book offers an extended analysis of Buuel's films in the context of contemporary debates in film studies, focusing in particular on questions of subjectivity and desire. Throughout, Buuel's films are viewed as both the brilliant, subversive expressions of the director's fantasies and obsessions and as reflections of wider cultural norms and preoccupations. Making use of psychoanalysis and gender theory, Peter Evans explores Buuel's characteristic thematics of transgression and his status as exile or outsider. The whole range of his work is…

Book details

List price: $120.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/25/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 214
Size: 5.35" wide x 8.50" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



List of Plates


Introduction



Roads to and from the Abyss: Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie and the Comedy of Desire



Family Romances: Bunuel's Mexican Melodramas



Susana: The Daughter's Seduction



Una mujer sin amor and Romantic Love



Los olvidados and the 'Uncanny'



Male Desire



Ensayo de un crimen and Oedipality



El: Fetishism and Paranoia



Cet obscur objet du desir and Sado-masochism



Female Desire



Le Journal d'une femme de chambre: Mothers and Daughters



Belle de jour and Female Perversion


Conclusion


A Bunuel Filmography


Bibliography


Index