{"product_id":"luis-bunuel-roman-gubern-9780299284749","title":"Luis Buel: The Red Years, 1929-1939","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe turbulent years of the 1930s were of profound importance in the life of Spanish film director Luis Buel (1900-1983). He joined the Surrealist movement in 1929 but by 1932 had renounced it and embraced Communism. During the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), he played an integral role in disseminating film propaganda in Paris for the Spanish Republican cause.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLuis Buel: The Red Years, 1929-1939\u003c\/i\u003e investigates Buel's commitment to making the politicized documentary \u003ci\u003eLand without Bread\u003c\/i\u003e (1933) and his key role as an executive producer at Filmono in Madrid, where he was responsible in 1935-36 for making four commercial features that prefigure his work in Mexico after 1946. As for the republics of France and Spain between which Buel shuttled during the 1930s, these became equally embattled as left and right totalitarianisms fought to wrest political power away from a debilitated capitalism.\u003cbr\u003e Where it exists, the literature on this crucial decade of the film director's life is scant and relies on Buel's own self-interested accounts of that complex period. Rom疣 Gubern and Paul Hammond have undertaken extensive archival research in Europe and the United States and evaluated Buel's accounts and those of historians and film writers to achieve a portrait of Buel's \"Red Years\" that abounds in new information.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rom疣 Gubern, Paul Hammond\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0299284743\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780299284749\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/04\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 472\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2012 pg. 105\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2012","brand":"Rom疣 Gubern","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43913578938623,"sku":"9780299284749","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_9da52026-aa9e-4998-9330-fc3a4b16da10.jpg?v=1680621165","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/luis-bunuel-roman-gubern-9780299284749","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}