Bunuel and Mexico - The Crisis of National Cinema

Informationen zum Autor Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz  is Professor of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is author of  West Side Story as Cinema: The Making and Impact of an American Masterpiece  and  Pedro Almodóvar. Klappentext The first extended study of Bunuel's Mexican films! which consititute a significant but neglected part of the great film maker's career. Zusammenfassung An English-language study of Luis Bunuel's Mexican films, this book explores a significant area of this film-maker's distinguished career and aims to fill a gap in our appreciation and understanding of both Bunuel's achievement and the history of Mexican film. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Ernesto R. Acevedo-Munoz, Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.11.2003
• EAN: 9780520239524
• ISBN: 978-0-520-23952-4
• No. of pages: 214
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Films, cinema, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Dance & Other Performing Arts