General Bibliography on Buñuel

I have prepared this brief bibliography hoping to complement the few words I’ll be able to utter during this short presentation/conversation on the film and also to try to add a few touches to the notes you might have on the movie.

Baxter, John. Buñuel. London: Fourth Estate, 1994.

Buache, Freddy. The Cinema of Luis Buñuel. Trans. [from the French] by Peter Graham. London, Tantivy Press; New York, A. S. Barnes, 1973.

Drouzy, Martin Luis Buñuel, Architecte du Reve. Paris: Lherminier, 1978.

Evans, Peter William. The Films of Luis Buñuel: Subjectivity and Desire. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Harcourt, Peter. Six European Directors; Essays on the Meaning of Film Style. Baltimore: Penguin Books: 1974

Higginbotham, Virginia. Luis Buñuel. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1979.

Kyro, Ado. Luis Buñuel. Paris: Seghers. 1964. Revised and updated in 1970.

Kinder, Marsha."Exile and Ideological Reinscription: The Unique Case of Luis Buñuel." In: Blood Cinema: The Reconstruction of National Identity in Spain / by Marsha Kinder. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. [Pages 278-338.]

Kyrou, Adonis. Luis Buñuel, An Introduction. Trans. [from the French] by Adrienne Foulke. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1963.

Monegal, Antonio. Luis Buñuel: de la literatura al cine: Una poética del objeto. Barcelona: Anthropos, 1993.

Paz, Octavio. "Luis Buñuel: Three Perspectives." In: On Poets and Others by Octavio Paz. Trans. [from the Spanish] by

Michael Schmidt. New York: Seaver Books, 1986. [See 152-65]

Roof, Gayle."Buñuel and the Romantic Fantastic: Techniques in his Avant-Garde Works." Hispanic Journal, 13, 1 (Spring 1992): 37-50.

Roof, Gayle. "Context as Instability: Aspects of Object Presentation in Luis Buñuel's Avant-Garde Works." Tenth Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, La Chispa '89: Selected Proceedings. New Orleans. 1989. [Pp 257-267]

Ross, Kristin. "Schoolteachers, Maids, and Other Paranoid Histories." Yale French Studies, 91 (1997): 7-27.

Sánchez Vidal, Agustín. Luis Buñuel . Madrid: Cátedra, 1991.

Sandro, Paul. Diversions of Pleasure: Luis Buñuel and the crises of desire. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1987.

Schwarze, Michael. Luis Buñuel . Barcelona: Plaza & Janés, 1988.

The University of California (Berkeley) has placed its large collection of books, articles and other material on the filmmaker at: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/Bunuelbib.html#joven.

Williams, Linda. Figures of Desire: A Theory and Analysis of Surrealist Film. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1981.

Bibliography on The Young One [La Joven], 1960

Aranda, J. Francisco. Luis Buñuel: A Critical Biography. Translated [from the Spanish] and edited by David Robinson. London: Secker and Warburg, 1975. [See 180-85]

Buñuel, Luis. My Last Sigh: The Autobiography of Luis Buñuel. Trans. [from the French] by Abigail Israel. New York: Vintage Books, 1984. [See chapters 16 & 17, especially pages 180-84; 190-93]

Buñuel, Luis. Objects of Desire: Conversations with Luis Buñuel. José de la Colina y Tomás Pérez Turrent. Ed. and Trans. [from the Spanish] by Paul Lenti. New York: Marsilio, 1992. [See 143-48]

Conrad, Randall. “No Blacks or Whites. The Making of Luis Buñuel's The Young One.” Cineaste, XX/3 (Summer 1993): 28-34. [This is the most complete article written about this film. In its 13 pages, the author discusses in detail the trials and tribulations of the genesis, plot, and release of the film, comparing it to several movies of the same period. You can read the whole article at this address on the web: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/youngone.html. If you cannot enter directly, go to the MRC of UC-Berkeley and type "Buñuel"].

Durgnat, Raymond. Luis Buñuel. London:Studio Vista, 1967. [See 116-20]

Edwards, Gwynne. The Discreet Art of Luis Buñuel: A Reading of His Films. London: Marion Boyars, 1982. [See 143-44]

So far, Buñuel’s most comprehensive bibliography on the web can be found at the site of the famous Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid (where the filmmaker spent his university days in the company of Dalí, Lorca, and other great figures of Spanish culture ). This site is based on Agustín Sánchez Vidal’s book Luis Buñuel. Obra cinematográfica (1994). To access this page type or click the following portal: http://colina.residencia.csic.es/imagenes/bunuel/inicio/bunuel1.html and check on “bibliografía.”