Cinema of Pedro AlmodóVar

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

Av Ana María Sanchez-Arce, Ana Maria Sanchez-Arce, Ana María

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This book offers a comprehensive film-by-film analysis of Spain’s most famous living director, Pedro Almodóvar. It shows how Almodóvar's films draw on various national cinemas and genres, including Spanish cinema of the dictatorship, European art cinema, Hollywood melodrama and film noir. It also argues that Almodóvar's work is a form of social critique, his films consistently engaging with and challenging stereotypes about traditional and contemporary Spain in order to address Spain's traumatic historical past and how it continues to inform the present. Drawing on scholarship in both English and Spanish, the book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of film studies and Hispanic studies, scholars of contemporary cinema and general readers with a passion for the films of Pedro Almodóvar.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-12-13
Mått138 x 216 x 19 mm
Vikt408 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSpanish and Latin-American Filmmakers
Antal sidor350
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9781526167125

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Introduction1 The early films: Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón and Laberinto de pasiones2 Kicking the habit: Entre tinieblas3 High windows and ugly aesthetics: ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?4 Faking Spain: Matador5 Other voices, other stories: La ley del deseo6 Pure theatre: Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios7 On the verge of a genre breakdown: ¡Átame!, Tacones lejanos and Kika8 The end of romance: La flor de mi secreto9 Circle lines and memory work: Carne trémula10 Remembering children: Todo sobre mi madre11 Still lives: Hable con ella12 Faking memory: La mala educación13 Motherlands: Volver14 Archaeology in the dark: Los abrazos rotos15 Visual seduction: La piel que habito16 'Crisis cinema': Los amantes pasajeros and JulietaAfterword: Dolor y gloriaFilmographyReferencesIndex

'Sánchez-Arce adds significantly to understanding of Almodóvar with these insightful close readings of his features—readings that employ a methodology blending feminism and formalism while situating the films in appropriate sociopolitical and historical contexts.'CHOICE‘The cinema of Pedro Almodóvar successfully manages the difficult task of finding new things to say about an auteur who has been widely written about and studied.’Dolores Tierney, Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas“The cinema of Pedro Almodovar” is an intelligent, thoroughly researched study of all the films up to “Dolor y Gloria” (Pain and Glory, 2019), showing them to be nuanced and political reflections on a reckoning with Franco.' The Prisma