Luis Bunuel - A Life in Letters

Luis Bunuel: 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. Bunuel (1900-1983) came to international attention with his first films, Un Chien Andalou (with Dali, 1929) and L''Age 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, Dali, Unik - and yet none of this material has been accessible outside specialist archives and a very small number of publications in Spanish and French.>

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jo Evans, Jo (University College London Evans, Breixo Viejo
• Assisted by: Jo Evans (Editor), Jo (University College London Evans (Editor), Evans Jo (Editor), Breixo Viejo (Editor), Breixo (University College London Viejo (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781501312571
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-1257-1
• No. of pages: 640
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, ART / History / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, Surrealism, History of Art, Diaries, letters and journals, Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers, Art & Design Styles: Surrealism & Dada, PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director