Queering Buñuel: Sexual Dissidence and Psychoanalysis in His Mexican and Spanish Cinema

by Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla and Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albill

As the father of cinematic Surrealism, extensive critical attention has been devoted to Luis Bu uel's cinema. Much has been written about his first Surrealist films of the 1920s and 1930s and the French art movies of the 1960s and 1970s. However, here for the first time is a queer re-reading of Bu uel's Spanish-language films allowing us to view Bu uel's cinema through a lens of queer spectatorship. Focusing on the films Bu uel produced in Mexico...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845116682
• ISBN13: 9781845116682
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.3"