The cinema of Pedro Almodóvar
eBook - ePub

The cinema of Pedro Almodóvar

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The cinema of Pedro Almodóvar

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of figures
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction: All about Almodóvar, or how to become a Spanish auteur
  10. 1 The early films: Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón and Laberinto de pasiones
  11. 2 Kicking the habit: Entre tinieblas
  12. 3 High windows and ugly aesthetics: ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?
  13. 4 Faking Spain: Matador
  14. 5 Other voices, other stories: La ley del deseo
  15. 6 Pure theatre: Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios
  16. 7 On the verge of a genre breakdown: ¡Átame!, Tacones lejanos, and Kika
  17. 8 The end of romance: La flor de mi secreto
  18. 9 Circle lines and memory work: Carne trémula
  19. 10 Remembering children: Todo sobre mi madre
  20. 11 Still lives: Hable con ella
  21. 12 Faking memory: La mala educación
  22. 13 Motherlands: Volver
  23. 14 Archaeology in the dark: Los abrazos rotos
  24. 15 Visual seduction: La piel que habito
  25. 16 ‘Crisis cinema’: Los amantes pasajeros and Julieta
  26. Afterword: Dolor y gloria
  27. Filmography
  28. References
  29. Index