FILM 285 - The Cinemas of Luis Buñuel

Semester Offered: Fall
1 unit(s)

This class studies the work of the Spanish-Mexican filmmaker Luis Buñuel, from his first short film, Un Chien Andalou (1928, co-directed with Salvador Dalí), to his last feature, This Obscure Object of Desire (1977), focusing on the relationship between aesthetics and production context. A filmmaker who started in 1920s European avant-garde circles as one of the founders of surrealism, Buñuel found a new career in the Mexican studio system, and eventually transformed Mexican cinema from within once that studio system crumbled, becoming a model for arthouse filmmaking in the country. In this course, we look at examples from the many phases of the filmmaker’s varied career in search of persistent personality traits, patterns and themes in different production contexts and stages of his creative life. Fabio Andrade.

Prerequisite(s): FILM 209.

Two 75-minute periods accompanied by film screenings.

Course Format: CLS