Luis Buñuel

Name: Luis Buñuel
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A Life in Letters

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Luis Buñuel: A Life in Letters offers an unprecedented annotated English-language collection of around 750 of Buñuel's key correspondences. Celebrated for pioneering Surrealist cinema with Un Chien Andalou and L’Âge d’Or, Buñuel's letters reveal his creative process, collaborations with renowned artists like Dalí and Fellini, and his perseverance through the challenges of the film industry across France, the US, and Mexico.
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This book will captivate film scholars, students of Surrealism, and admirers of 20th-century cinema, as well as readers interested in the lives and creative minds behind influential cultural icons.

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PROSE Award for Excellence in Media and Cultural Studies Finalist 2020

Luis Buñuel: A Life in Letters provides access for the first time to an annotated English-language version of around 750 of the most important and most widely relevant of these letters.

Buñuel (1900-1983) came to international attention with his first films, Un Chien Andalou (with Dalí, 1929) and L’Âge d’Or (1930): two surprisingly avant-garde productions that established his position as the undisputed master of Surrealist filmmaking.

He went on to make 30 full-length features in France, the US, and Mexico, and consolidated his international reputation with a Palme d’Or for Viridiana in 1961, and an Academy Award in 1973 for The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.

He corresponded with some of the most famous writers, directors, actors, and artists of his generation, and the list of these correspondents reads like a roll call of major twentieth-century cultural icons: Fellini, Truffaut, Vigo, Aragon, Dalí, Unik - and yet none of this material has been accessible outside specialist archives and a very small number of publications in Spanish and French.

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Praised as a magnificent contribution to Buñuel studies, this collection is heralded by Cineaste Magazine as a gift of essential Buñueliana. Sight & Sound highlights its insight into Buñuel's innovative filmmaking and enduring optimism. News Four calls it a superb gathering of his most significant letters, while Peter W describes it as witty, humorous, and essential for cinema enthusiasts.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781501312588

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 October 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Illustration: 107 bw illus

Contributors:

Edited by Jo Evans
Edited by Breixo Viejo

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 36.0mm

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 980g

Pages: 640

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Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir Journals Non-Fiction Stationery

About the Author

Jo Evans is Senior Lecturer in the School of European Languages, Culture and Society at University College London, UK. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on Spanish film and Hispanic literature, and is the author of books on the Franco Regime poet Ángela Figuera Aymerich and on the Spanish director Julio Medem.

Breixo Viejo is Senior Research Associate in the School of European Languages, Culture and Society at University College London, UK. He has published numerous articles and books chapters on film and is the author of monographs on film music and Jim Jarmusch, and editions on Samuel Beckett and Francisco Aranda.