Luis Buñuel

<p><b>PROSE Award for Excellence in Media and Cultural Studies Finalist 2020</b><br><i><br>Luis Buñuel: A Life in Letters </i>provides access for the first time to an annotated English-language version of around 750 of the most important and most widely relevant of these letters. Buñuel (1900-1983) came to international attention with his first films <i>Un Chien Andalou</i> (with Dalí 1929) and <i>L'Âge d'Or</i> (1930): two surprisingly avant-garde productions that established his position as the undisputed master of Surrealist filmmaking. He went on to make 30 full-length features in France the US and Mexico and consolidated his international reputation with a Palme d'Or for <i>Viridiana </i>in 1961 and an Academy Award in 1973 for <i>The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie</i>. He corresponded with some of the most famous writers directors actors and artists of his generation and the list of these correspondents reads like a roll call of major twentieth-century cultural icons: Fellini Truffaut Vigo Aragon Dalí Unik - and yet none of this material has been accessible outside specialist archives and a very small number of publications in Spanish and French.</p>