Aesthetics, Ethics and Trauma in the Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar

Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla is Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Comparative Literature, and Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Southern California. His publications include the books Aesthetics, Ethics and Trauma in the Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar (2017) and Queering Buñuel: Sexual Dissidence and Psychoanalysis in his Mexican and Spanish Cinema (2008). In addition to numerous articles and chapters, he has co-edited works, such as A Companion to Buñuel (2013) with Rob Stone and Hispanic and Lusophone Women Filmmakers: Theory, Practice and Difference (2013) with Parvati Nair. He translated into Spanish Bracha L. Ettinger’s Proto-ética matricial (2019).

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Encountering the Trace1. Im-Possibility of Not-Returning: Volver2. Im-Possibility of Not-Sharing: Todo sobre mi madre3. Im-Possibility of Not-Writing Otherwise: La mala educación4. Im-Possibility of Not-Succumbing: La piel que habitoNotesReferencesIndex

Brilliant and original work by one of the most intellectually and ethically committed scholars working on Spanish-language film. Gutiérrez-Albilla engages lucidly with, and generously elucidates Derrida, Lévinas, Deleuze and Ettinger to raise questions about the trace of trauma associated with the Franco Regime in recent films by Almodóvar.