Queering Bunuel
Subtitle: Sexual Dissidence and Psychoanalysis in his Mexican and Spanish Cinema
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Published: November 11, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781845116682
Subjects: Film theory & criticism; Performing Arts; Gender Studies; Cinema/Film: Book; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Gay Studies; Social Science / Gay Studies; Film & Video - General
Description: "This book contains a queer re-reading of Luis 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 multiple forms of identity, subjectivity and sexuality present in these five representative films. "Queering Bunuel" brings together the fields of film studies, feminist and queer theory, Hispanic studies, psychoanalysis and art theory. Gutierrez-Albilla succeeds in reconceptualizing Bunuel's Mexican and Spanish films beyond geographical, historical and disciplinary boundaries, questioning not just how we see Bunuel, but also how we see cinema."--Jacket.