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

ISBN-10: 0755696786
ISBN-13: 9780755696789
Category: Fine Arts
Language: English
Author: Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla

Description

As the father of cinematic Surrealism, extensive critical attention has been devoted to Luis Bunuel'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 Bunuel's Spanish-language films allowing us to view Bunuel's cinema through a lens of queer spectatorship. Focusing on the films Bunuel produced in Mexico and Spain during the 1950s and 1960s, Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla argues not that Bunuel's films have a homosexual subplot, but that there are mu.

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