Rob Stone, Amparo Martínez Herranz and Pete William Evans discuss ‘Who is Luis Buñuel?’ following our screening of Viridiana.

Rob Stone is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Spanish Cinema (Longman, 2001), Julio Medem (Manchester University Press, 2007), co-author of Basque Cinema: A Cultural and Political History (I.B.Tauris, 2015) and co-editor of The Unsilvered Screen: Surrealism on Film (Wallflower, 2007) and The Companion to Luis Buñuel (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).

Thanks to Professor Rob Stone for his consultation with the season.

Peter William Evans is Emeritus Professor of Film Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. His research and publications are mainly on Spanish cinema and classical Hollywood cinema. He is the author of The Films of Luis Buñuel: Subjectivity and Desire (Oxford University Press, 1995), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (BFI, 1996) and the editor of Spanish Cinema: The Auteurist Tradition (Oxford University Press, 1999).

Amparo Martínez Herranz is Professor of History of Art and Film in the University of Zaragoza in Spain. Her research focuses on the films of Luis Buñuel, the history of cinema in Aragon and Spain, and the links between cinema, literature and art. She is the author of several studies of the history of cinema in Zaragoza and edited La España de Viridiana (The Spain of Viridiana) (Zaragoza University Press, 2013).

Recorded on 25th January 2024 at The Garden Cinema