Luis Buï½uel

A Life in Letters

By: Jo Evans (Editor), Breixo Viejo (Editor)

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Hardcover | 31 October 2019

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640 Pages

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Annotated

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24.77 x 16.51 x 3.81

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PROSE Award for Excellence in Media and Cultural Studies Finalist 2020

Luis Bu±uel: A Life in Letters provides access for the first time to an annotated English-language version of around 750 of the most important and most widely relevant of these letters. Bu±uel (1900-1983) came to international attention with his first films, Un Chien Andalou (with Dal, 1929) and Lâge dâOr (1930): two surprisingly avant-garde productions that established his position as the undisputed master of Surrealist filmmaking. He went on to make 30 full-length features in France, the US and Mexico, and consolidated his international reputation with a Palme dâOr for Viridiana in 1961, and an Academy Award in 1973 for The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. He corresponded with some of the most famous writers, directors, actors and artists of his generation and the list of these correspondents reads like a roll call of major twentieth-century cultural icons: Fellini, Truffaut, Vigo, Aragon, Dal, Unik - and yet none of this material has been accessible outside specialist archives and a very small number of publications in Spanish and French.

Industry Reviews

Witty, humorous, revelatory, Bu±uel's letters are a rich mine of information on one of the world's greatest film-makers. This superb edition of letters from and to Bu±uel will be essential reading for anyone interested in the history of world cinema.
Peter William Evans, Emeritus Professor of Film Studies, Queen Mary University of London, UK

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