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

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

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