Buñuel and Mexico: The Crisis of National Cinema

by Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz

Book Overview

Though Luis Bu uel, one of the most important filmmakers of the twentieth century, spent his most productive years as a director in Mexico, film histories and criticism invariably pay little attention to his work during this period. The only book-length English-language study of Bu uel's Mexican films, this book is the first to explore a significant but neglected area of this filmmaker's distinguished career and thus to fill a gap in our appreciation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520239520
• ISBN13: 9780520239524
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.4"