Research Catalog

Title

Luis Buñuel : the red years, 1929-1939 / Román Gubern and Paul Hammond.

Author

Gubern, Román

Publication

Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

Hammond, Paul, 1947 July 19-

Description

xi, 443 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"The turbulent years of the 1930s were of profound importance in the life of Spanish film director Luis Bunuel (1900-1983). He joined the Surrealist movement in 1929 but by 1932 had renounced it and embraced Communism. During the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), he played an integral role in disseminating film propaganda in Paris for the Spanish Republican cause. Luis Bunuel: The Red Years 1929-1939 investigates Bunuel's commitment to making the politicized documentary Land without Bread (1933) and his key role as an executive producer at Filmofono in Madrid, where he was responsible in 1935-36 for making four commercial features that prefigure his work in Mexico after 1946. As for the republics of France and Spain between which Bunuel shuttled during the 1930s, these became equally embattled as left and right totalitarianisms fought to wrest political power away from a debilitated capitalism. Where it exists, the literature on this crucial decade of the film director's life is scant and relies on Bunuel's own self-interested accounts of that complex period. Roman Gubern and Paul Hammond have undertaken extensive archival research in Europe and the United States and evaluated Bunuel's accounts and those of historians and film writers to achieve a portrait of Bunuel's Red Years that abounds in new information"--Publisher's description.

Series Statement

Wisconsin film studies

Uniform Title

• Años rojos de Luis Buñuel. English
• Project Muse UPCC books
• Wisconsin film studies

Alternative Title

Años rojos de Luis Buñuel.

Subject

• Buñuel, Luis, 1900-1983 > Criticism and interpretation
• Buñuel, Luis, 1900-1983 > Political and social views
• Motion picture producers and directors > Spain > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Originally published in Spain as Los años rojos de Luis Buñuel.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- The militant surrealist -- The production of L'âge d'or -- A fecund scandal -- A brief stay in Hollywood -- The coming of the Spanish Second Republic -- A stormy year -- Time-serving at Paramount-Joinville -- The mutations of L'âge d'or and other projects -- From Las Hurdes to Terre sans pain -- Dubbing at Warner Bros. -- Commerce, art, and politics -- Filmófono -- The outbreak of the Spanish Civil War -- A two-year mission in Paris -- Final flight to the United States.

ISBN

• 9780299284749 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0299284743 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780299284732 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
• 0299284735 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2011011630

OCLC

• 708243814
• SCSB-10608648

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library