Peter William Evans is Professor of Spanish at the University of Nottingham.
'Evans interprets the films as if they are dreams, teasing out
their hidden meanings. It's his ingenuity in doing so that keeps
The Films of Luis Bunuel afloat.'
Geoffrey Macnab, Literary Review
`This is certainly a book for the theorist and you don't need to
know Bunnel's films to benefit from its contents.'
Film
`Intelligent and eclectic study of cinema's great
taboo-breaker.'
Sight and Sound
`a brilliant start to the new series on Hispanic themes launched by
OUP...A must for any Bunuel bibliography'
Forum for Modern Language Studies
`One of the principal virtues of Peter Evan's landmark study is its
concern to provide a multiple readership in hispanism and film
studies with a precise set of indicators to hispanic contexts and
traditions that inform Bunuel's films. What emerges is an
appreciation of Bunuel's achievement as an auteur that is
considerably fuller and more nuanced than previous accounts.'
Times Higher Education Supplement
`Exhaustive and compelling book. This important study is a concise,
informed and challenging work which should invigorate discussion
about the most iconoclastic of directors. Peter William Evans has
thrown the films of Luis Bunuel to the wolves of contemporary
critical debates in film studies. It is a fight which the sly, old
Aragonese dog would have relished.'
Rob Stone, University of Aberystwyth, Tesserae 2 (1996)
`Evans's perceptive discussion of the films' cinematic
intertextuality is criss-crossed with enlightening literary
associations, from Golden-Age authors and Buñuel's French and
Spanish contemporaries to gothic novelists and Latin-American
writers ... useful in providing a unified interpretation of
Bunñuel's work and gives many new insights into the individual
films under discussion.'
Xon de Ros, King's College, London, MLR, 91.4, 1996
`Peter Evans works in generous swathes of thought, bringing what
seems to be a large amount of learning and clarity to his
subject.'
British Bulletin of Publications, No. 95, October 1996
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