Download or read book Sound in Motion written by Enrique Encabo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sound in Motion: Cinema, Videogames, Technology and Audiences is a collective volume that sheds more light on the intimate relationship between music and audiovisual culture in contemporary society. This book brings together researchers from different parts of the world, from the USA to Brazil, through Spain, Georgia, France and Austria, to understand, from different perspectives, a global phenomenon. It includes indispensable studies on music and cinema (revisited from a multicultural perspective), as well as original research on music in videogames and television, and the study of the real impact of technological development on musical and artistic production. It also gathers chapters which explore the relationship between all these processes with the configuration of new audiences of which (maybe without knowing) we are already a part.
Download or read book Reinventing Sound written by Enrique Encabo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have witnessed a true technological revolution with a global impact upon all areas of society, from entertainment to education. Technology, changing and evolving at increasing speed, undoubtedly shapes ways of seeing the world, something which requires profound reflection in terms of how reality is understood. It is undeniable that in this audiovisual world music plays a leading and prominent role. This is particularly notable when considering the importance of music in relation to the way it is featured on mobile devices and as manifested in terms of other communication technologies, its impact on new narrative forms and the prominence of audiovisual fiction in advertising, and the new ways of creating, receiving and disseminating music on the Internet. This book is divided into two sections, “New Media, New Audiences” and “Music, Cinema and Audiovisual Practices: New Approaches”, and the sixteen essays brought together here are the work of an international group of scholars who deal with different geographical and cultural contexts. One of the highlights of this volume is its interdisciplinary re-reading of a complex phenomenon that is undoubtedly a fundamental part of contemporary culture. As such, this collection will be of particular interest to both scholars and non-specialist readers.
Download or read book VI CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE SINESTESIA CIENCIA Y ARTE 2018 ACTIVIDADES PARALELAS written by María José de Córdoba Serrano and published by Fundación Internacional artecittà. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ACTAS DEL “VI CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE SINESTESIA, CIENCIA Y ARTE + ACTIVIDADES PARALELAS 2018”. Alcalá la Real, Jaén (España). Sedes: Convento de Capuchinos, Palacio Abacial, Teatro Martínez Montañés, Alcalá la Real (Jaén) y Conservatorio Superior de Música Victoria Eugenia, Granada, España. Facultad de Bellas Artes, UGR Granada, España Versión digital, Abril de 2018. Primera Edición/First edition: April 2018 E-book ISBN: 978-84-948665-0-0 Comité editorial: Mª José de Córdoba Serrano; Julia López de la Torre Lucha; Timothy B. Leyden. Diseño imagen, trípticos de promoción y cartel: Víctor Parra ©Editorial: Fundación Internacional Artecittà. Granada. 2018 C/Doctor Medina Olmos nº 44. 18015-Granada, España [email protected] http://www.artecitta.es Nota aclaratoria: E-book interactivo. Formato PDF. Todo el material recogido en este libro de Actas está protegido por copyright, ley internacional, y no debe ser reproducido, distribuido, ni publicado sin el permiso expreso solicitado previamente a sus autores/ All materials contained on this Book are protected by International copyright laws and cannot be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, displayed, published or broadcasted without the prior written permission of the publisher. Los textos se presentan como han sido enviados por los congresistas/ investigadores, respetando si han querido publicar sus textos completos o sólo los resúmenes. Comité Organizador/Organization Committee: Comité de dirección: Dra. Mª José de Córdoba. F.I.A.C. y UGR. Coordinador General: Dr. Francisco Toro Ceballos. Jefe de servicio. Técnico de Cultura del Excmo. Ayuntamiento de Alcalá la Real, Jaén. España. [email protected] Juan M. Martín Afán de Rivera. Técnico de Cultura. Excmo. Ayuntamiento de Alcalá la Real, Jaén. España. [email protected] Dirección MuVi5: Dra. Dina Riccò (Univ. Politecnico di Milano) & Dra. María José de Córdoba UGR. Coordinador Internacional: Dr. Sean A Day (IASAS) and Dr. Antón Sidoroff Dorso (Artecitta Ru). Coordinación Interna: Dr.Timothy B Layden y Julia López de la Torre Lucha (Artecittà) Comité Científico: Dr. Edward M. Hubbard (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Dr. Joerg Jewansky; Dr. Markus Zedler; Dr. Sean A Day, Dra. DinaRiccò (Politecnico di Milano) Coordinador interuniversitario: Dr. Juan García Villar (FIAC). Colaboradores / Delegaciones: Dr. Víctor Parra (UPEL, Venezuela); Dr. Wilmer Chávez (UCLA, Venezuela); José Antonio Fernández (Synlogic, FIAC. Asesor psicopedagógico FIAC); Dr. Mohamed Radi Abouarab y Prof. Dr. Maged ABDELTAWAB AHMED ELKEMARY, Rector de la Universidad de Kafrelsheikh, (Egipto). Dra. Helena Melero (Univ. Rey Juan Carlos III. Madrid y FIAC, Madrid); Master Dibujo, Producción y Difusión, Dra. Mari Carmen Hidalgo y Dr. Jesús Pertíñez López. UGR; Ninghui Xiong and Tong Jung Ding (Artecittà China); Dra. Coral Morales, Ciencias de la Educación, UJA. Instituto de Estudios Giennenses (IEG): Dr. Pedro Galera Andreu y Dra. Adela Tarifa Fernández. Concejalía de Cultura, Excmo. Ayuntamiento de Alcalá la Real: Sr. D. Juan Francisco Martínez. Ayudante Comunicación Diseño e Imagen Ayto. Alcalá la Real, Jaén Federico Barquero Mesa. Traducción simultánea: Julia López de la Torre, Timothy B Layden (FIAC). y Dr. Víctor Parra, (F.I.A.C). Colaboración especial: Sr. D. Jesús Caicedo Bernabé. Presidente de la F.I.A.C.
Download or read book Audiovisual Translation Subtitling written by Jorge Díaz-Cintas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Audiovisual Translation: Subtitling" is an introductory textbook which provides a solid overview of the world of subtitling. Based on sound research and first-hand experience in the field, the book focuses on generally accepted practice but identifies current points of contention, takes regional and medium-bound variants into consideration, and traces new developments that may have an influence on the evolution of the profession. The individual chapters cover the rules of good subtitling practice, the linguistic and semiotic dimensions of subtitling, the professional environment, technical considerations, and key concepts and conventions, providing access to the core skills and knowledge needed to subtitle for television, cinema and DVD. Also included are graded exercises covering core skills. "Audiovisual Translation: Subtitling" can be used by teachers and students as a coursebook for the classroom or for self-learning.It is also aimed at translators and other language professionals wishing to expand their sphere of activity. While the working language of the book is English, an accompanying DVD contains sample film material in Dutch, English, French, Italian and Spanish, as well as a range of dialogue lists and a key to some of the exercises. The DVD also includes WinCAPS, SysMedia's professional subtitling preparation software package, used for broadcast television around the world and for many of the latest multinational DVD releases of major Hollywood projects.
Download or read book M sica y narraci n en los medios audiovisuales written by Manuel Gértrudix Barrio and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SINOPSIS DE LA OBRA: Música y narración en los medios audiovisuales realiza una reflexión sobre la presencia, sentido y valor de la Música en el ámbito de los medios de comunicación, desde el estudio de sus fundamentos artísticos, científicos, y comunicativos. El texto se inicia con una aproximación a la naturaleza y definición estética del fenómeno musical para analizar el valor comunicativo del signo musical. Seguidamente, se estima cuáles son las posibilidades de las nuevas tecnologías de la información y la comunicación aplicadas a la Música, a partir del estudio de su fundamento físico y sonoro, y la consideración de algunos apuntes de carácter técnico. El estudio de la vinculación de la música con los medios de comunicación social y su incidencia en los procesos creativos, una prospectiva de la implicación narrativa de la Música en la configuración de los relatos audiovisuales, y la estimación de las actuales circunstancias sociológicas de consumo y uso musical, completan las propuestas de este ejemplar.
Download or read book Video in Second Language Teaching written by Susan Stempleski and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... Provides practical and principled advice to inexperienced and experienced teachers who are using or plan to use video in second language teaching"--Page 4 of cover
Download or read book Poso Wells written by Gabriela Alemán and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated Ecuadorian author Gabriela Alemán's first work to appear in English: a noir, feminist eco-thriller in which venally corrupt politicians and greedy land speculators finally get their just comeuppance! "In the squalid settlement of Poso Wells, women have been regularly disappearing, but the authorities have shown little interest. When the leading presidential candidate comes to town, he and his entourage are electrocuted in a macabre accident witnessed by a throng of astonished spectators. The sole survivor—next in line for the presidency—inexplicably disappears from sight. Gustavo Varas, a principled journalist, picks up the trail, which leads him into a violent, lawless underworld. Bella Altamirano, a fearless local, is on her own crusade to pierce the settlement's code of silence, ignoring repeated death threats. It turns out that the disappearance of the candidate and those of the women are intimately connected, and not just to a local crime wave, but to a multinational magnate's plan to plunder the country's cloud forest preserve. Praise for Poso Wells: "The story is a condemnation not only of the corrupt businessmen and the criminal gangs that rule Poso Wells but also of the violence against women that plagues Latin America's real slums."—The New Yorker "One part Thomas Pynchon, one part Gabriel García Marquez, and one part Raymond Chandler, Alemán’s novel contains mystery, horror, humor, absurdity, and political commentary … A concoction of political thriller and absurdist literary mystery that never fails to entertain."—Kirkus Reviews "A wild, successful satire of Ecuadorian politics and supernatural encounters. … Alemán’s singular voice keeps the ride fresh and satisfying."—Publishers Weekly "Poso Wells is ironic, audacious, and fierce. But what is it, exactly? A satire? A scifi novel? A political detective yarn? Or the purest reality of contemporary Latin America. It's unclassifiable—as all great books are."—Samanta Schweblin, author of Fever Dream "Poso Wells is brilliant, audacious, doubtlessly playful and at the same time so dark and bitter. A truly unforgettable book."—Alejandro Zambra, author of Multiple Choice
Download or read book Composici n musivisual written by Alejandro Román and published by Vision Libros. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este volumen es un manual sobre los aspectos que rodean la profesión del compositor de música aplicada al audiovisual, completando el espacio teórico de los campos de conocimiento necesarios para desarrollar una actividad profesional en el cine y servir de ayuda para iniciar el desarrollo de los aspectos no dominados por los compositores noveles. La novedad que se encuentra en Composición Musivisual es que dispone de una gran cantidad de nuevo material y documentación que no estaban al alcance hace unas décadas, debido a los cambios tecnológicos implementados recientemente. Además, se abordan gran parte de los géneros audiovisuales, dedicando apartados específicos al cine de ficción, el documental, la publicidad, la animación, la música televisiva, la música para teatro, el videoarte, la videodanza y los videojuegos. Composición Musivisual completa la "trilogía" que comenzó con El Lenguaje Musivisual, trabajo teórico que planteaba los elementos semióticos, lingüísticos y estéticos que forman parte de la música audiovisual. Por su parte, Análisis Musivisual significaba la puesta en práctica desde un punto de vista analítico. Para acabar de completar el abanico de perspectivas, Composición Musivisual acerca al compositor al mundo de la música aplicada a partir de sus técnicas, tecnologías, procedimientos, géneros y estilos desde el legado que han dejado los compositores cinematográficos. Incluye 104 figuras, 20 tablas, 355 películas citadas y 377 personalidades (compositores, directores, artistas, etc.), constituyendo una referencia para los estudios de composición para medios audiovisuales en conservatorios y universidades, así como una guía para compositores autodidactas, profesionales que deseen reciclarse o completar conocimientos, o cineastas que deseen conocer los procesos de trabajo de los músicos con los que trabajan en sus películas.
Download or read book Sound and Recording written by Francis Rumsey and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This best-selling book introduces you to the principles of sound, perception, audio technology and systems. Whilst offering vital reading for audio students and trainee engineers, this guide is ideal for anyone concerned with audio, sound and recording, beginners and professionals alike. This new edition is bang up to date, with a new chapter on sound quality, expanded information on sequecing, rewire and digital audio synchonisation, pitch correction and blue ray disk.
Download or read book The Didactics of Audiovisual Translation written by Jorge Díaz-Cintas and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While complementing other volumes in the BTL series in its exploration of the state of the art of translator training, this collection of essays is solely focused on audiovisual translation, one of the most complex and dynamic areas of the translation discipline. The book offers an easily accessible yet comprehensive introduction to the fascinating subject of translating films, video games and other audiovisual material. Offering a balance between theory and practice, the main aim of this volume is to provide a wealth of teaching and learning ideas in areas such as subtitling, dubbing, and voice-over without forgetting the newer fields of subtitling for the deaf and audio description for the blind. The Didactics of Audiovisual Translation comes with an accompanying CD-Rom, highlighting its fundamentally interactive approach, and the activities proposed can be adapted to different learning environments and used with different language combinations.
Download or read book Ensayo Fundamental sobre el Relato written by Alejandro Guevara and published by iberoamericana/comunicación. This book was released on 2013-10-09 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Normal 0 21 false false false ES-AR X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:justify; line-height:11.2pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} Ensayo Fundamental Sobre el Relato La lengua no es la inoculadora de las palabras a los oídos. Esa es una visión linguocéntrica. Logocéntrica. Sexista. Fueron los oídos los que enseñaron a las lenguas que les enseñaron a los oídos, que… Una cinta de Mohebius sin principio. Sin lado prestigioso. Es lo que propone Alejandro Guevara. Un modo de describir al relato que divide al individuo. (En relatador y persona). Decreta la muerte de lenguas, emisores, mensajes, oyentes, tal como los conocemos hoy y relega esas palabras a meros soportes de dispositivos al servicio del transporte. De la logística de la pausa. Y dice que el fetichismo de la pausa es la fuente más importante de los desatinos de las ciencias sociales. Una locura. No lo lea si no quiere salir del acogedor sistema de sentido que pensamos "lenguaje".
Download or read book Audio Engineer s Reference Book written by Michael Talbot-Smith and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative reference on all aspects of audio engineering and technology including basic mathematics and formulae, acoustics and psychoacoustics, microphones, loudspeakers and studio installations. Compiled by an international team of experts, the second edition was updated to keep abreast of fast-moving areas such as digital audio and transmission technology. Much of the material has been revised, updated and expanded to cover the very latest techniques. This is a new paperback version.
Download or read book M sica y medios audiovisuales written by Josep Lluís i Falcó and published by Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El estudio de las relaciones entre la música y los medios audiovisuales se ha diversificado en los últimos años. Fruto de la creciente interdisciplinariedad surge este volumen, estructurado en tres partes: La primera, dedicada a las fuentes, el análisis y las aplicaciones educativas de la música para los medios audiovisuales. Josep Lluís i Falcó, actualiza el estado de la cuestión de la bibliografía especializada; José Luis Centeno se centra en el uso de la música de Ligeti 2001: Una odisea del espacio, mientras que Víctor Solanas aborda la música pop en el cine de Visconti. Cierra este bloque el enfoque didáctico de Juan Carlos Montoya, diseñando una propuesta educativa a partir de la serie de animación El asombroso mundo de Gumball. La segunda parte aborda nuevos enfoques y conceptos. Eduardo Viñuela dibuja un panorama del videoclip contemporáneo en la era post-televisiva; Marco Antonio Juan de Dios, analiza la evolución del diseño sonoro en la narrativa audiovisual a partir del «sonido inmersivo»; Ana María Sánchez define un nuevo formato audiovisual: el «coreoclip»; Daniel Torras y Santos Martínez estudian el concepto de «sonotipo», y nuevos conceptos como el de «pantallología» son aplicados al campo de la música por Israel Márquez, quien se centra en el caso específico de la cultura del DJ. Finalmente, Alberto Jiménez Arévalo se aproxima al estudio del cine postmoderno español a través del paisaje sonoro. La tercera parte se centra en el audiovisual español. Esther García Soriano establece nexos entre Juan Quintero Muñoz y la alta comedia norteamericana. Carla Miranda recupera a la figura olvidada de Genaro Monreal. Ya en la banda sonora contemporánea, Sergio Lasuén estudia el sistema armónico de autores clave como José Nieto, Alberto Iglesias y Roque Baños. Y cierra el volumen Virginia Sánchez, que se aproxima, desde una perspectiva de género a la música de la serie de televisión: La sonata del silencio. En definitiva, aproximaciones interdisciplinares, de naturaleza y enfoques diversos, que contribuyen a retratar el rico y variado panorama actual en la investigación sobre música para audiovisual en nuestro país.
Download or read book Western Music and Its Others written by Georgina Born and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-10-15 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Western Music and Its Others] will be taken as an important book signalling a new turn within the field. It takes the best features of traditional, rigorous scholarship and brings these to bear upon contemporary, more speculative questions. The level of theoretical sophistication is high. The studies within it are polemical and timely and of lasting scholarly value."—Will Straw, co-editor of Theory Rules: Art as Theory/ Theory and Art "The great value of this collection lies in the wealth of questions that it raises--questions that together crystallize the recent concerns of musicology with force and clarity. But it also lies in the authors' resistance to the easy 'postmodernist' answers that threaten to turn new musicology prematurely grey. The editors' comprehensive, intellectually adventurous introduction exemplifies the sort of eager yet properly skeptical receptivity to scholarly innovation that fosters lasting disciplinary reform. It alone is worth the price of the book." —Richard Taruskin, author of Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions: A Biography of the Works Through " Mavra" "When cultural-studies methods first appeared in musicology 15 years ago, they triggered a storm of polemics that sometimes overshadowed the important issues being raised. As the canon wars recede, however, scholars are finding it possible to focus on the concerns that led them to cultural criticism in the first place: the study of music and its political meanings. Western Music and Its Others brings together leading musicologists, ethnomusicologists, and specialists in film and popular music to explore the ways European and North American musicians have drawn on or identified themselves in tension with the musical practices of Others. In a series of essays ranging from examination of the Orientalist tropes of early 20th-century Modernists to the tangled claims for ownership in today's World Music, the authors in this collection greatly advance both our knowledge of specific case studies and our intellectual awareness of the complexity and urgency of these problems. A timely intervention that should help push music studies to the next level." —Susan McClary, author of Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form (2000) "This collection provides a sophisticated model for using theory to interrogate music and music to interrogate theory. The essays both take up and challenge the dominance of notions of representation in cultural theory as they explore the relevance of the concepts of hybridity and otherness for contemporary art music. Sophisticated theory, erudite scholarship and a very real appreciation for the specificities of music make this a powerful and important addition to our understanding of both culture and music." —Lawrence Grossberg, author of Dancing in Spite of Myself
Download or read book The Case for Mental Imagery written by Stephen M. Kosslyn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-09 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we try to remember whether we left a window open or closed, do we actually see the window in our mind? If we do, does this mental image play a role in how we think? For almost a century, scientists have debated whether mental images play a functional role in cognition. In The Case for Mental Imagery, Stephen Kosslyn, William Thompson, and Giorgio Ganis present a complete and unified argument that mental images do depict information, and that these depictions do play a functional role in human cognition. They outline a specific theory of how depictive representations are used in information processing, and show how these representations arise from neural processes. To support this theory, they seamlessly weave together conceptual analyses and the many varied empirical findings from cognitive psychology and neuroscience. In doing so, they present the conceptual grounds for positing this type of internal representation and summarize and refute arguments to the contrary. Their argument also serves as a historical review of the imagery debate from its earliest inception to its most recent phases, and provides ample evidence that significant progress has been made in our understanding of mental imagery. In illustrating how scientists think about one of the most difficult problems in psychology and neuroscience, this book goes beyond the debate to explore the nature of cognition and to draw out implications for the study of consciousness. Student and professional researchers in vision science, cognitive psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience will find The Case for Mental Imagery to be an invaluable resource for understanding not only the imagery debate, but also and more broadly, the nature of thought, and how theory and research shape the evolution of scientific debates.
Download or read book Applied Biomechatronics Using Mathematical Models written by Jorge Garza Ulloa and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2018-06-16 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applied Biomechatronics Using Mathematical Models provides an appropriate methodology to detect and measure diseases and injuries relating to human kinematics and kinetics. It features mathematical models that, when applied to engineering principles and techniques in the medical field, can be used in assistive devices that work with bodily signals. The use of data in the kinematics and kinetics analysis of the human body, including musculoskeletal kinetics and joints and their relationship to the central nervous system (CNS) is covered, helping users understand how the complex network of symbiotic systems in the skeletal and muscular system work together to allow movement controlled by the CNS. With the use of appropriate electronic sensors at specific areas connected to bio-instruments, we can obtain enough information to create a mathematical model for assistive devices by analyzing the kinematics and kinetics of the human body. The mathematical models developed in this book can provide more effective devices for use in aiding and improving the function of the body in relation to a variety of injuries and diseases. - Focuses on the mathematical modeling of human kinematics and kinetics - Teaches users how to obtain faster results with these mathematical models - Includes a companion website with additional content that presents MATLAB examples
Download or read book Luis Bu uel written by Román Gubern and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2012-01-04 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The turbulent years of the 1930s were of profound importance in the life of Spanish film director Luis Buñuel (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. Luis Buñuel: The Red Years, 1929–1939 investigates Buñuel’s commitment to making the politicized documentary Land without Bread (1933) and his key role as an executive producer at Filmófono 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 Buñuel shuttled during the 1930s, these became equally embattled as left and right totalitarianisms fought to wrest political power away from a debilitated capitalism. Where it exists, the literature on this crucial decade of the film director’s life is scant and relies on Buñuel’s own self-interested accounts of that complex period. Román Gubern and Paul Hammond have undertaken extensive archival research in Europe and the United States and evaluated Buñuel’s accounts and those of historians and film writers to achieve a portrait of Buñuel’s “Red Years” that abounds in new information.
