Description
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on nine of Luis Buñuel’s films made in Mexico in order to show that a concerted focus on space can unlock new philosophical meaning in his rich body of work. The interdisciplinary approach of this book unites the two substrands of his work: the independent movies and the studio potboilers.
Trade ReviewA 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
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. Re-locating Bunuel’s Mexican Cinema
2. The Island Heterotopias of
Robinson Crusoe and
The Young One3. Betwixt and Between: Liminal Space in
La Mort en ce jardin and
Simon del desierto4. The Body-self in Place: The Place-worlds of
Los olvidados and
Nazarin5. Questions of Belonging: The (Im)possibility of a Home-place
Conclusion
References
Index
