Companion to Pedro Almodóvar

Marvin D’Lugo is Professor of Spanish and Adjunct Professor of Screen Studies at Clark University, Massachusetts where he teaches courses on Spanish and Latin American cinema. He has published a number of books including Pedro Almodóvar (2006) in the University of Illinois Press’ Contemporary Film Directors series.Kathleen M. Vernon is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is author and editor of numerous studies on Spanish cinema and culture including Post-Franco, Postmodern: The Films of Pedro Almodóvar (1995).

• Notes on Contributors viiiAcknowledgments xvIntroduction: The Skin He Lives In 1Marvin D’Lugo and Kathleen M. VernonPart I Bio-Filmography 191 Almodóvar’s Self-Fashioning: The Economics and Aesthetics of Deconstructive Autobiography 21Paul Julian Smith2 Creative Beginnings in Almodóvar’s Work 39Francisco A. Zurian3 Almodóvar and Hitchcock: A Sorcerer’s Apprenticeship 59Dona Kercher4 A Life, Imagined and Otherwise: The Limits and Uses of Autobiography in Almodóvar’s Films 88Alberto MiraPart II Spanish Contexts 1055 El Deseo’s “Itinerary”: Almodóvar and the Spanish Film Industry 107Marina Díaz López6 Almodóvar and Spanish Patterns of Film Reception 129Josetxo Cerdán and Miguel Fernández Labayen7 Memory, Politics, and the Post-Transition in Almodóvar’s Cinema 153Juan Carlos Ibáñez8 The Ethics of Oblivion: Personal, National, and Cultural Memories in the Films of Pedro Almodóvar 176Adrián Pérez MelgosaPart III At the Limits of Gender 2019 Our Rapists, Ourselves: Women and the Staging of Rape in the Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar 203Leora Lev10 Paternity and Pathogens: Mourning Men and the Crises of Masculinity in Todo Sobre Mi Madre and Hable Con Ella 225Dean Allbritton11 Domesticating Violence in the Films of Pedro Almodóvar 244Noelia Saenz12 La piel que habito: A Story of Imposed Gender and the Struggle for Identity 262Francisco A. ZurianPart IV Re-readings 27913 Re-envoicements and Reverberations in Almodóvar’s Macro-Melodrama 281Marsha Kinder14 The Flower of His Secret: Carne trémula and the Mise en Scène of Desire 304Celestino Deleyto15 Scratching the Past on the Surface of the Skin: Embodied Intersubjectivity, Prosthetic Memory, and Witnessing in Almodóvar’s La mala educación 322Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla16 Almodóvar’s Stolen Images 345Javier HerreraPart V Global Almodóvar 36517 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: From Madrid (1988) to New York (2010) 367Isolina Ballesteros18 Almodóvar’s Global Musical Marketplace 387Kathleen M. Vernon19 Almodóvar and Latin America: The Making of a Transnational Aesthetic in Volver 412Marvin D’Lugo20 Is there a French Almodóvar? 432Jean-Claude Seguin21 Almodóvar in Asia: Hong Kong, Taiwan, and LGBT Film Culture 453E. K. TanPart VI Art and Commerce 46922 To the Health of the Author: Art Direction in Los abrazos rotos 471John D. Sanderson23 Making Spain Fashionable: Fashion and Design in Pedro Almodóvar’s Cinema 495Gerard Dapena24 Almodóvar, Cyberfandom, and Participatory Culture 524Vicente Rodríguez OrtegaIndex 551

“Well researched and clearly organized, the volume boasts a helpful scholarly apparatus.  Almodovar scholars will want to keep this companion handy, and all advanced students of film will appreciate it.  Summing Up: Recommended.  Graduate students, researchers, faculty.”  (Choice, 1 December 2013)