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Post-Franco, Postmodern

The Films of Pedro Almodovar

Inbunden, Engelska, 1995

AvBarbara Morris,Kathleen M. Vernon,Kathleen Vernon

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The films of Pedro Almodovar have demonstrated great crossover appeal in their ability to attract both mainstream and marginal audiences and to command critical as well as commercial success. The contributors to this anthology of critical essays seek, through close readings of the director's 10 feature films, to analyze the multiple contexts of Almodovar's phenomenal international success. This volume offers a corrective to the glib approaches that have dominated previous discussions of Almodovar's films, which have treated them, on the one hand, as simply the latest contribution to the travel poster image of passionate, romantic Spain, or, on the other, as historical joyrides through the global pop culture scene. As the first comprehensive study of Almodovar's cinema to be published in North America, the book is also noteworthy for the range of critical and theoretical methodologies that the contributors bring to the study of his works. Drawing upon disciplines that run from psychoanalysis, feminism, queer theory, film and media studies, and cultural theory to the empirical study of audience response, the authors nevertheless share a concern to illuminate the specifically Spanish context of the director's films. While this volume serves the important function of introducing American audiences to post-Franco Spanish culture, it also pursues the complementary goal of projecting contemporary Spain into the critical debate on the forms and functioning of postmodern culture and society.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1995-01-16
Mått156 x 235 x 17 mm
Vikt510 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieContributions to the Study of Popular Culture
Antal sidor232
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780313292453

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KATHLEEN M. VERNON is Assistant Professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. She is the editor of Juan Benet (1986) and The Spanish Civil War and the Visual Arts (1990), and the author of numerous articles on contemporary Spanish and Latin American literature and film in journals such as Film Quarterly, Film and History, La Torre, Hispania, and Revista de Estudios Hispanicos. She is currently completing a study of the representation of memory and history in post-civil war Spanish narrative, novel and film.BARBARA MORRIS is an independent scholar working on contemporary Spanish film and literature. She is the author of essays in Chicago Review, Critical Inquiry, Letras Peninsulares, Revista de Estudios Hispanicos, Espana Contemporanea, and Anales de la Literatura Espanola Contemporanea. She is currently writing a book on configurations of gender in post-Franco Spanish cinema.

PrefaceIntroduction: Pedro Almodóvar, Postmodern Auteur by Kathleen M. Vernon and Barbara MorrisPepi, Luci, Bom and Dark Habits: Lesbian Comedy, Lesbian Tragedy by Paul Julian SmithSense or Sensibility, or Latent Heterosexuality and Labyrinth of Passion by James MandrellMelodrama Against Itself: What Have I Done to Deserve This? by Kathleen M. VernonTauromachy as a Spectacle of Gender Revision in Matador by Leora LevAlmodóvar's Laws of Subjectivity and Desire by Barbara MorrisFiguring Hysteria: Disorder and Desire in Three Films by Almodóvar by Brad EppsAlmodóvar's City of Desire by Marvin D'LugoFrom Matricide to Motherlove: High Heels by Marsha KinderAlmodóvar's Postmodern Cinema: A Work in Progress… by Victor FuentesFrom Rough Trade to Free Trade: Toward a Contextual Analysis of Audience Response to the Films of Pedro Almodóvar by Wendy RolphFilmographySelected Bibliography: "Almodóvar in America"Index