University of New Orleans ScholarWorks@UNO Foreign Languages Faculty Publications Department of English and Foreign Languages Winter 2005 Interpreting Reality: ‘Los olvidados’ and the Documentary Mode Julie Jones University of New Orleans,
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[email protected]. Interpreting Reality: Los oMdados and the Documentary Mode JULIE JONES LUIS BUNUEL NOURISHED AN AFFECTION FOR The following study, dedicated to Los olvida- THE DOCUMENTARY MODE throughout hiS dos, concerns those elements in the film itself career, even claiming at one point that the that align it with documentary practice, but the nonfiction film had become his main concern study gives equal weight to Buriuel's presenta- {"Autobiography" 256). Recently, his most tion ofthe film (mainly through interviews) and clearly documentary film. Las Hurdes [Land to contemporary reviews in the press, both of v^fithout Bread] (1933), has been the object of which stressed the film's serious social pur- much debate regarding his sources, funding, pose and thereby reinforced an interpretation and political agenda, as well as the degree ofthe work as nonfiction.