About this book
Pedro AlmodĂłvar is an internationally acclaimed Spanish director. The national and international fascination over AlmodĂłvar's cinema lies in his ability to reflect the problems of contemporary society, his lucidity in combining the urban and the rural, his ability to express the frustrations of modern man, as well as his freshness and spontaneity. Although the vast majority of studies on this Spanish director have focused on women and the gay world, his films are crowded with many types and archetypes of heterosexual men. This groundbreaking edited volume studies the men in the cinema of AlmodĂłvar from a broad yet comprehensive and complementary perspective. Each chapter of All About AlmodĂłvar's Men methodically dissects these male charactersâtheir misery and their greatness, their frustrations and their desiresâoffering a kaleidoscopic view of man that goes beyond the narrow framework in which many studies have locked the rich cinema of AlmodĂłvar.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- 1. The Multifaceted Man in the Cinema of AlmĂłdovar (Juan Rey)
- 2. The Villanous Man: Evil as the Incarnation of Masculinity (Salomé Sola-Morales)
- 3. The Seductive Man: The Long Shadow of Don Juan (MĂłnica Barrientos-Bueno)
- 4. The Tormented Man: Crisis of Male Hegemonic Imperatives (Luis Alfonso Guadarrama Rico / Jannet Valero Vilchis)
- 5. Queer Masculinities: Evolution of Homosexual, Transsexual, and Queer Characters (Lorena López-Font / Carlos Fanjul-Peyró / Cristina Gonzålez-Oñate)
- 6. The (Anti)Caring Man: Exploring Care and Protection in Masculinity Roles (VĂctor HernĂĄndez-Santaolalla / Javier Lozano Delmar)
- 7. The Invisible Man: Nothing About My Father (Antonio Molina Flores)
- 8. The Violent Man: Aggressiveness as a Masculine Quality (Manuel Garrido-Lora)
- 9. The Son: From Corporeal Representation to the Indelible Memory (Alberto Hermida / Sergio Cobo-DurĂĄn)
- 10. The Liquid Man: Between the Old and the Postmodern (AdriĂĄn Huici MĂłdenes)
- 11. The Satyr Man: (Hetero)Sexual Male Activity (LucĂa Caro-Castaño / David Selva-Ruiz)
- 12. The Castrated Man: Between Physical and Mental Disability (Francisco Javier GĂłmez-PĂ©rez / JosĂ© Patricio PĂ©rez-RufĂ)
- 13. The National Man: The Iberian Macho (MarĂa del Mar RamĂrez Alvarado)
- 14. The Absent Man: Male Void as Dramatic Causality (Juan J. Vargas-Iglesias)
- 15. The Cinema of AlmodĂłvar as a Rhizome (Juan J. Vargas-Iglesias)
- AlmodĂłvarâs Filmography
- Notes on Contributors
