Search for Belonging
«A major new addition to Buñuel scholarship, this book should be required reading on all university courses. An intelligent and impeccably researched account of the recurring motif of the search for the impossible in Buñuel’s work that draws the commercial and more auteurist films together in a comprehensive and elegant discussion of the aesthetic, ideological, and ethical implications of Buñuel’s cinema that is inspired by the interdisciplinary focus of the spatial turn.»
Jo Evans, University College London
As one of the foremost Spanish directors of all time, Luis Bunuel's filmography has been the subject of innumerable studies. Despite the fact that the twenty films he made in Mexico between 1946 and 1965 represent the most prolific stage of his career as a filmmaker, these have remained relatively neglected in writing on Bunuel and his work. Les mer
In doing so, it avoids the tropes most often associated with Bunuel's cinema-surrealism, Catholicism, the derision of the bourgeoisie-and the approach most often invoked in analysis of these themes: psychoanalysis. Instead, this book takes inspiration from the fields of human geography, anthropology, and philosophy, applying these to film-focused readings of Bunuel's Mexican cinema to argue that, ultimately, these films depict an overriding sense of placelessness, overtly or subliminally enacting a search for belonging that forces the viewer to question what it means to be in place.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Columbia University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780231182355
- Utgivelsesår
- 2017
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«A major new addition to Buñuel scholarship, this book should be required reading on all university courses. An intelligent and impeccably researched account of the recurring motif of the search for the impossible in Buñuel’s work that draws the commercial and more auteurist films together in a comprehensive and elegant discussion of the aesthetic, ideological, and ethical implications of Buñuel’s cinema that is inspired by the interdisciplinary focus of the spatial turn.»
Jo Evans, University College London