Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 422 g
Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 422 g
ISBN: 978-0-520-23423-9
Verlag: University of California Press
Although Luis Buñuel, one of the great filmmakers of the century, was notoriously reluctant to discuss his own work in public, he wrote--and wrote well--on many subjects over the years. This collection proceeds chronologically, from poetry and short stories written in Buñuel's youth in Spain to an essay written in 1980, not long before his death. Newly translated into English, the writings offer startling insights into the filmmaker's life and thought.
The earliest pieces came well before Buñuel joined the Surrealist movement in Paris and created the landmark film Un chien andalou with Salvador Dalí. Yet these and the early Surrealist writings reveal the inventiveness of the mind that would later create such masterpieces of cinema as L'Age d'or, Los olvidados, Viridiana, The Milky Way, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, and That Obscure Object of Desire.
Later writings, which include screenplays and reflections on his own and others' films, illuminate many aspects of Buñuel's career, as well as the ways of thinking and perceiving that underlie his unique cinematic style. The final essay by this extraordinary artist sums up his view of the world--still vibrant and full of contradictions--at the end of his life.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
- Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Einzelne Filmschauspieler, Filmregisseure, Drehbuchautoren
Weitere Infos & Material
Acknowledgments
Foreword
by Jean-Claude Carriere
Surrealist Writings
An Unspeakable Betrayal
Orchestration
Suburbs: Motifs
Unnoticed Tragedies as Themes for a Totally New Theater
Why 1 Don't Wear a Watch
Theorem
Lucille and Her Three Fish
Deluge
Ramuneta at the Beach
Cava/feria rusticana
The Pleasant Orders of St. Huesca
Letter to Pepin Bello on St. Valero's Day
Idea for a Story
La Sancta Misa Vaticanae
Menage a trois
A Decent Story
On Love
A Giraffe
An Andalusian Dog
For Myself I Would Like
Miraculous Polisher
It Seems to Me Neither Good nor Evil
Upon Getting into Bed
The Rainbow and the Poultice
Redemptress
Bacchanal
Odor of Sanctity
Palace of Ice
Bird of Anguish
Theater
Hamlet
Guignol
On Cinema
BUNUEL AS CRITIC
A Night at the Studio des Ursulines
Metropolis
Fred Niblo's Camille
Abel Gance's Napoleon
Victor Fleming's The Way of All Flesh
Buster Keaton's College
Variations on Adolphe Menjou's Mustache
News from Hollywood
Our Poets and the Cinema
Carl Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc
The Comic in Cinema
BUNUEL AS THEORIST
The Cinematic Shot
Decoupage, or Cinematic Segmentation
Cinema as an Instrument of Poetry
BUNUEL AS SCRIPTWRITER
Goya and the Duchess of Alba
Un Chien andalou
L'Age d'or
Gags
Hallucinations about a Dead Hand
Illegible, the Son of a Flute
Agon (Swansong)
Bunuel on Bunuel
Land without Bread
Viridiana
To PECIME
Autobiographical Writings
Fragments of a Journal from Bufiuel's Youth in Calanda
Medieval Memories of Lower Aragon
From Bufiuel's Autobiography
Pessimism
Afterword
by Juan Luis Bufiuel and Rafael Bufiuel
