A Companion to Luis Bunuel presents a collection of critical readings by many of the foremost film scholars that examines and reassesses myriad facets of world-renowned filmmaker Luis Bunuels life, works, and cinematic themes.

Table of Contents

• Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: The "Criminal" Life of Luis Buñuel Rob Stone; Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla
• Part One An Aragonese Dog
• 1 Interview with Juan Luis Buñuel Rob Stone
• 2 Luis Buñuel and the Politics of Self-Presentation Julie Jones
• 3 Buñuel, Master Pyrotechnician: The Role of Firearms in His Cinema Guy H. Wood; Javier Herrera Navarro
• 4 Buñuel's Critique of Nationalism: A Migratory Aesthetic? Mieke Bal
• Part Two A Golden Age
• 5 Surreal Souls: Un chien andalou and Early French Film Theory Sarah Cooper
• 6 Fixed-Explosive: Buñuel's Surrealist Time-Image Ramona Fotiade
• 7 L Âge d'or Agustín Sánchez Vidal
• 8 Buñuel Entomographer: From Las Hurdes to Robinson Crusoe Tom Conley
• Part Three The Forgotten One
• 9 The Complicit Eye: Directorial and Ocular Paradigms in Luis Buñuel's Mexican Films and Interdisciplinary Visuality (1940s and 1950s) Erica Segre
• 10 Out of Place, Out of Synch: Errant Movement and Rhythm in Buñuel's Mexican Comedies Tom Whittaker
• 11 Susana: Melodrama and the Voluptuosity of Destruction María Pilar Rodríguez
• 12 Young Outlaws and Marginal Lives in Latin American Cinema: The Landmark of Buñuel's Los olvidados Ana Moraña
• Part Four Strange Passions
• 13 The Creative Process of Robinson Crusoe: Exile, Loneliness, and Humanism Amparo Martínez Herranz
• 14 The Cinematic Labor of Affect: Urbanity and Sentimental Education in El bruto and Ensayo de un crimen Geoffrey Kantaris
• 15 Stars in the Wilderness: La Mort en ce jardin Sarah Leahy
• 16 Transitional Triptych: The Traps of International Cinemas in Buñuel's Cela s'appelle l'aurore, La Mort en ce jardin, and La Fiévre monte ä El Pao Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz
• 17 Buñuel Goes Medieval: From Sewing to Cervantes and the Vagina Dentata Sherry Velasco
• Part Five An Exterminating Angel
• 18 The Galdós Intertext in Viridiana Sally Faulkner
• 19 Spectral Cinema: Le Journal d'une femme de chambre Kate Griffiths
• 20 Between God and the Machine: Buñuel's Cine-Miracles Libby Saxton
• 21 The Road and the Room: Narrative Drive in the Films of Luis Buñuel Marsha Kinder
• Part Six Discretion and Desire
• 22 On a Road to Nowhere: Parodic Movement as Time-Image in La Voie lactée and Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie Sheldon Penn
• 23 The Intertextual Presence of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Belle de jour Arnaud Duprat de Montero
• 24 Splitting Doubles: Ángela Molina and the Art of Screen Acting in Cet obscur objet du désir Peter William Evans
• 25 Buñuel and Historical Reason Cristina Moreiras-Menor
• 26 Through a Fractal Lens: New Perspectives on the Narratives of Luis Buñuel Wendy Everett
• Part Seven And in the Spring
• 27 Mutilation, Misogyny, and Murder: Surrealist Violence or Torture Porn? Paul Begin
• 28 Inside/Outside: Space and Sexual Behavior in Belle de jour and La Pianiste Jimmy Hay
• 29 Surrealist Legacies: The Influence of Luis Buñuel's "Irrationality" on Hiroshi Teshigahara's "Documentary-fantasy" Felicity Gee
• 30 Luis Buñuel's Angel and Maya Deren's Meshes: Trance and the Cultural Imaginary Susan McCabe
• Filmography