James F Lastra
Biographic Data
| ID | 1601667 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James F Lastra |
| GIVEN NAMES | James F |
| FAMILY NAME | Lastra |
| SIGNATURE | LASTRA J F |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Buñuel, Bataille, and Buster, or, the surrealist life of things
Why Is This Absurd Picture Here? Ethnology/Equivocation/Bunuel
Near the middle of Luis Bufiuel's film Las Hurdes: Land Without Bread (1933), we witness one in a string of atrocities that make up Hurdano daily life.1 After learning that the Hurdano diet consists almost entirely of potatoes, which are all eaten by May orJune, and unripe cherries, which cause deadly dysentery, we spy a pair of wild goats scaling a precipice. As if to underscore the extremity of the Hurdanos' existence, the narrator tells us tha…
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Why Is This Absurd Picture Here? Ethnology/Equivocation/Bunuel
Near the middle of Luis Bufiuel's film Las Hurdes: Land Without Bread (1933), we witness one in a string of atrocities that make up Hurdano daily life.1 After learning that the Hurdano diet consists almost entirely of potatoes, which are all eaten by May orJune, and unripe cherries, which cause deadly dysentery, we spy a pair of wild goats scaling a precipice. As if to underscore the extremity of the Hurdanos' existence, the narrator tells us tha…
Buñuel, Bataille, and Buster, or, the surrealist life of things
Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Absurdism (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (1 work) · Cinema History and Criticism (1 work) · Citation (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Equivocation (1 work)