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"As the father of cinematic Surrealism, extensive critical attention has been devoted to Luis Bunuel's cinema. Much has been written about his first Surrealist films of the 1920s and 1930s and the French art movies of the 1960s and 1970s. However, here for the first time is a queer re-reading of 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 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."

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'This book is superbly written, at the highest level of intellectual argument, and with a most impressively broad range of theoretical frames of reference, which are always explained well and integrated into the discussion. There are few scholars who can handle difficult theorists like Lacan and Zizek (diacritics) with ease and clarity, and Dr Gutierrez is one of them...In addition to being the most theoretically brilliant study of Bunuel's work to date (and a lot has been written on his films), this book also stands out as an original contribution to scholarship on account of its interweaving into its argument of reference to the work of contemproary visual arts...It should be on the reading list of every student of Bunuel (whether in Departments of Cinema or Spanish), and has the potential to establish itself as a classic of queer cultural criticism.'Professor Jo LabanyiDepartment of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures,New York University'Bunuel's films have received long and sustained critical attention from a wide variety of perspectives over the years but never, to my knowledge, have they been subjected to the sort of theoretical analysis successfully applied here...Concentrating on a reduced number of films also provides the opportunity for detailed analysis, and Gutierrez-Albilla opens up these films in fascinating ways, sometimes brilliantly.'Professor Peter Evans,Professor of Film Studies and Head of the School of Modern Languages,Queen Mary, University of London

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Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla is Assistant Professor in Spanish and Film Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. He completed his DPhil at Cambridge University in 2004.

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