TY - BOOK ID - 77861700 TI - Buñuel and Mexico : the crisis of national cinema PY - 2003 SN - 0520930487 1597345164 9780520930483 141750806X 9781417508068 0520239520 9780520239524 0520239520 9780520239524 9781597345163 PB - Berkeley : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Motion pictures KW - Buñuel, Luis, KW - Buñuel, Louis, KW - Buñuel Portolés, Luis, KW - Portolés, Luis Buñuel, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Buñuel, Luis KW - Portolés, Luis Buñuel KW - Portolés, Luics Buñuel, KW - auteur. KW - bunueliana. KW - cabaretera. KW - cinema. KW - cultural studies. KW - director. KW - el. KW - ensayo de un crimen. KW - family melodrama. KW - film criticism. KW - film genre. KW - film history. KW - film industry. KW - film theory. KW - film. KW - filmmaking. KW - gran casino. KW - hispanic studies. KW - hispanic. KW - latin america. KW - latino. KW - los olvidados. KW - luis bunuel. KW - mexican cinema. KW - mexican film. KW - mexican history. KW - mexico. KW - national identity. KW - nationalism. KW - performance. KW - performing arts. KW - political film. KW - politics. KW - satire. KW - social commentary. KW - subida al cielo. KW - surrealism. KW - susana. KW - una mujer sin amor. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77861700 AB - Though Luis Buñuel, 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 Buñuel'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 and understanding of both Buñuel's achievement and the history of Mexican film. Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz considers Buñuel's Mexican films-made between 1947 and 1965-within the context of a national and nationalist film industry, comparing the filmmaker's employment of styles, genres, character types, themes, and techniques to those most characteristic of Mexican cinema. In this study Buñuel's films emerge as a link between the Classical Mexican cinema of the 1930's through the 1950's and the "new" Cinema of the 1960's, flourishing in a time of crisis for the national film industry and introducing some of the stylistic and conceptual changes that would revitalize Mexican cinema. ER -