| Description |
xvi, 568 p. : ill. |
| Series |
Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directors
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Marvin D'Lugo and Kathleen M. Vernon -- Bio-Filmography. Paul Julian Smith Almodovar's self-fashioning: the economics and aesthetics of deconstructive biography -- Francisco A. Zurian: Creative Beginnings in Almodovar's Work -- Dona Kercher: Almodovar and Hitchcock: a sorcerer's apprenticeship -- Alberto Mira: A life, imagined and otherwise: the limits and uses of autobiography in Almodovar's films -- Spanish Contexts. Marina Diaz Lopez: El Deseo's Itinerary: Almodovar and the Spanish film industry -- Josetxo Cerdan: Almodovar and Spanish patterns of film reception and Miguel Fernandez -- Juan Carlos Ibanez: Memory, politics and the post-transition in Almodovar's cinema -- Adrissn Perez Melgosa: The ethics of oblivion: personal, national, and cultural memories in the films of Pedro Almodovar -- At the limits of gender. Leora Lev: Our rapists ourselves: Women and the staging of rape in the cinema of Pedro Almodovar -- Dean Albritton: Paternity & pathogens: mourning men and the crises of masculinity in Almodovar -- Noelia Saenz: Domesticating violence in the films of Pedro Almodovar -- Francisco A. Zurian: La piel que habito: a story of imposed gender and the struggle for identity -- Re-readings. Marsha Kinder: reenvoicements and reverberations in Almodovar's macro-melodrama -- Celestino Deleyto: The flower of his secret: Carne tremula and the Mise en scene of Desire -- Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albila: Scratching the past on the "surface" of the "skin": embodied inter-subjectivity, prosthetic memory, and witnessing in Almodovar's La mala educacion -- Javier Herrera: Almodovar's Stolen images -- Global Almodovar. Isolina Ballesteros: Women on the verge of nervous breakdown: from Madrid (1988) to New York (2010) -- Kathleen M. Vernon: Almodovar's global musical marketplace -- Marvin D'lugo: Almodovar and Latin America: The making of a transnational aesthetic in Volver -- Jean-Claude Seguin: Is there a French Almodovar? -- E K Tan: Almodovar in Asia: Hong Kong, Taiwan and LGBT film culture -- Art and commerce. John D. Sanderson: To the health of the author: art direction in Los abrazos rotos -- Gerard Dapena: Making Spain fashionable -- Vicente Rodriguez-Ortega: Almodovar, cyberfandom and participatory culture. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Almodovar, Pedro -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
D'Lugo, Marvin.
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Vernon, Kathleen M., 1951-
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9781405195829 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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9781118325391 (electronic bk.) |
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