A Companion to Luis Buñuel presents a collection of critical readings by many of the foremost film scholars that examines and reassesses myriad facets of world-renowned filmmaker Luis Buñuel's life, works, and cinematic themes.* A collection of critical readings that examine and reassess the controversial filmmaker's life, works, and cinematic themes* Features readings from several of the most highly-regarded experts on the cinema of Buñuel* Includes a multidisciplinary range of approaches from experts in film studies, Hispanic studies, Surrealism, and theoretical concepts such as those of Gilles Deleuze* Presents a previously unpublished interview with Luis Buñuel's son, Juan Luis Buñuel

Contributors viiiAcknowledgments xviiiIntroduction: The "Criminal" Life of Luis Buñuel 1Rob Stone and Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-AlbillaPart One An Aragonese Dog 591 Interview with Juan Luis Buñuel 61Rob Stone2 Luis Buñuel and the Politics of Self-Presentation 79Julie Jones3 Buñuel, Master Pyrotechnician: The Role of Firearms in His Cinema 98Guy H. Wood and Javier Herrera Navarro4 Buñuel's Critique of Nationalism: A Migratory Aesthetic? 116Mieke BalPart Two A Golden Age 1395 Surreal Souls: Un chien andalou and Early French Film Theory 141Sarah Cooper6 Fixed-Explosive: Buñuel's Surrealist Time-Image 156Ramona Fotiade7 L'Âge d'or 172Agustín Sánchez Vidal8 Buñuel Entomographer: From Las Hurdes to Robinson Crusoe 188Tom ConleyPart Three The Forgotten One 2039 The Complicit Eye: Directorial and Ocular Paradigms in Luis Buñuel's Mexican Films and Interdisciplinary Visuality (1940s and 1950s) 205Erica Segre10 Out of Place, Out of Synch: Errant Movement and Rhythm in Buñuel's Mexican Comedies 226Tom Whittaker11 Susana: Melodrama and the Voluptuosity of Destruction 240María Pilar Rodríguez12 Young Outlaws and Marginal Lives in Latin American Cinema: The Landmark of Buñuel's Los olvidados 255Ana MorañaPart Four Strange Passions 27713 The Creative Process of Robinson Crusoe: Exile, Loneliness, and Humanism 279Amparo Martínez Herranz14 The Cinematic Labor of Affect: Urbanity and Sentimental Education in El bruto and Ensayo de un crimen 302Geoffrey Kantaris15 Stars in the Wilderness: La Mort en ce jardin 324Sarah Leahy16 Transitional Triptych: The Traps of International Cinemas in Buñuel's Cela s'appelle l'aurore, La Mort en ce jardin, and La Fièvre monte à El Pao 340Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz17 Buñuel Goes Medieval: From Sewing to Cervantes and the Vagina Dentata 362Sherry VelascoPart Five An Exterminating Angel 37918 The Galdós Intertext in Viridiana 381Sally Faulkner19 Spectral Cinema: Le Journal d'une femme de chambre 399Kate Griffiths20 Between God and the Machine: Buñuel's Cine-Miracles 414Libby Saxton21 The Road and the Room: Narrative Drive in the Films of Luis Buñuel 431Marsha KinderPart Six Discretion and Desire 45522 On a Road to Nowhere: Parodic Movement as Time-Image in La Voie lactée and Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie 457Sheldon Penn23 The Intertextual Presence of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Belle de jour 479Arnaud Duprat de Montero24 Splitting Doubles: Ángela Molina and the Art of Screen Acting in Cet obscur objet du désir 494Peter William Evans25 Buñuel and Historical Reason 509Cristina Moreiras-Menor26 Through a Fractal Lens: New Perspectives on the Narratives of Luis Buñuel 518Wendy EverettPart Seven And in the Spring 53527 Mutilation, Misogyny, and Murder: Surrealist Violence or Torture Porn? 537Paul Begin28 Inside/Outside: Space and Sexual Behavior in Belle de jour and La Pianiste 554Jimmy Hay29 Surrealist Legacies: The Inf luence of Luis Buñuel's "Irrationality" on Hiroshi Teshigahara's "Documentary-fantasy" 572Felicity Gee30 Luis Buñuel's Angel and Maya Deren's Meshes: Trance and the Cultural Imaginary 590Susan McCabeFilmography 608Index 624