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By Paul Hammond

Illustrated in a single of the good collaborations of cinema heritage, L'age d'or united the geniuses of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali within the making of a uniquely savage combination of visible poetry and social feedback. one of many remarkable works of the Surrealist circulation, L'Age d'or was once banned and vilified for a few years in lots of nations, turning into justly mythical for its subversive eroticism and its livid dissection of "civilized" values. In a notable, intuitive studying of L'Age d'or, Paul Hammond interweaves a close account of the extreme conditions of its creation with a blinding interpretation of its aesthetic and political nuances. without delay authoritative and polemical, it is a learn completely in music with its topic, a becoming accompaniment to 1 of the foremost landmarks of global cinema.

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