A Companion To Luis Buñuel

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 Bunuel’s life, works, and cinematic themes.

• A collection of critical readings that examine and reassess the controversial filmmaker’s life, works, and cinematic themes
• Features readings from several of the most highly-regarded experts on the cinema of Bunuel
• Includes a multidisciplinary range of approaches from experts in film studies, Hispanic studies, Surrealism, and theoretical concepts such as those of Gilles Deleuze
• Presents a previously unpublished interview with Luis Bunuel’s son, Juan Luis Bunuel

Rob Stone is Professor of European Film in the Department of Art History, Film and Visual Studies at the University of Birmingham where he directs B-Film: The Birmingham Centre for Film Studies. He is the author of numerous film books, including Spanish Cinema (2001), The Wounded Throat: Flamenco in the Works of Federico Garcia Lorca and Carlos Saura (2004), Julio Medem (2007) and Walk, Don't Run: The Cinema of Richard Linklater (2013).

Julian Daniel Gutierrez Albilla is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Southern California. He has published on a wide range of Hispanic films including articles and chapters in edited works on Pedro Almodovar, Hector Babenco, Luis Bunuel or Lucrecia Martel. He is the author of Queering Bunuel: Sexual Dissidence and Psychoanalysis in his Mexican and Spanish Cinema (2008).