Bunuel and Mexico (eBook)

The Crisis of National Cinema

Ernesto R. Acevedo-Munoz (Autor)

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2003
214 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-93048-3 (ISBN)

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Though Luis Bunuel, one of the most important filmmakers of the twentieth century, spent his most productive years as a director in Mexico, film histories and criticism invariably pay little attention to his work during this period. The only book-length English-language study of Bunuel's Mexican films, this book is the first to explore a significant but neglected area of this filmmaker's distinguished career and thus to fill a gap in our appreciation and understanding of both Bunuel's achievement and the history of Mexican film. Ernesto Acevedo-Munoz considers Bunuel's Mexican films-made between 1947 and 1965-within the context of a national and nationalist film industry, comparing the filmmaker's employment of styles, genres, character types, themes, and techniques to those most characteristic of Mexican cinema. In this study Bunuel's films emerge as a link between the Classical Mexican cinema of the 1930s through the 1950s and the "e;new"e; Cinema of the 1960s, flourishing in a time of crisis for the national film industry and introducing some of the stylistic and conceptual changes that would revitalize Mexican cinema.

Inhalt

List of Figures
Acknowledgments

Introduction
1. Mexican Cinema in the Time of Luis Buñuel
2. Buñuel and Mexico
3. Los Olvidados and the Crisis of Mexican Cinema
4. Genre, Women, Narrative
5. On the Road: Subida al Cielo and La Ilusión Viaja en Tranvía
6. Masculinity and Class Conflict: Buñuel’s Macho-Dramas
Conclusion. From Buñuel to "Nuevo Cine"

Filmography of Luis Buñuel
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.11.2003
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
• Schlagworte: auteur • bunueliana • cabaretera • Cinema • Cultural Studies • Director • El • ensayo de un crimen • family melodrama • Film • film criticism • film genre • Film History • film industry • filmmaking • Film theory • gran casino • Hispanic • Hispanic Studies • Latin America • Latino • los olvidados • Luis Bunuel • Mexican Cinema • Mexican film • mexican history • Mexico • national identity • Nationalism • Performance • performing arts • Political film • Politics • Satire • Social commentary • subida al cielo • Surrealism • Susana • una mujer sin amor
• ISBN-10: 0-520-93048-7 / 0520930487
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-93048-3 / 9780520930483