A companion to Pedro Almodóvar

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: D'Lugo, Marvin, Vernon, Kathleen M., 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Malden, Mass. : John Wiley & Sons, 2013.
Series:Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directors
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Marvin D'Lugo and Kathleen M. Vernon
  • Bio-Filmography. Paul Julian Smith Almodóvar's self-fashioning: the economics and aesthetics of deconstructive biography
  • Francisco A. Zurián: Creative Beginnings in Almodóvar's Work
  • Dona Kercher: Almodóvar and Hitchcock: a sorcerer's apprenticeship
  • Alberto Mira: A life, imagined and otherwise: the limits and uses of autobiography in Almodóvar's films
  • Spanish Contexts. Marina Diaz López: El Deseo's Itinerary: Almodóvar and the Spanish film industry
  • Josetxo Cerdán: Almodóvar and Spanish patterns of film reception and Miguel Fernandez
  • Juan Carlos Ibanez: Memory, politics and the post-transition in Almodóvar's cinema
  • Adrissn Pérez Melgosa: The ethics of oblivion: personal, national, and cultural memories in the films of Pedro Almodóvar
  • At the limits of gender. Leora Lev: Our rapists ourselves: Women and the staging of rape in the cinema of Pedro Almodóvar
  • Dean Albritton: Paternity & pathogens: mourning men and the crises of masculinity in Almodóvar
  • Noelia Saenz: Domesticating violence in the films of Pedro Almodóvar
  • Francisco A. Zurián: La piel que habito: a story of imposed gender and the struggle for identity
  • Re-readings. Marsha Kinder: reenvoicements and reverberations in Almodóvar's macro-melodrama
  • Celestino Deleyto: The flower of his secret: Carne trémula and the Mise en scene of Desire
  • Julian Daniel Gutiérrez-Albila: Scratching the past on the "surface" of the "skin": embodied inter-subjectivity, prosthetic memory, and witnessing in Almodóvar's La mala educación
  • Javier Herrera: Almodóvar's Stolen images
  • Global Almodóvar. Isolina Ballesteros: Women on the verge of nervous breakdown: from Madrid (1988) to New York (2010)
  • Kathleen M. Vernon: Almodóvar's global musical marketplace
  • Marvin D'lugo: Almodóvar and Latin America: The making of a transnational aesthetic in Volver
  • Jean-Claude Seguin: Is there a French Almodóvar?
  • E K Tan: Almodóvar 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: Almodóvar, cyberfandom and participatory culture.