Barbara Morris, Kathleen Vernon

Gebundenes Buch

Post-Franco, Postmodern

The Films of Pedro Almodovar

Beschreibung

The films of Pedro Almodovar have demonstrated great crossover appeal in their ability to attract both mainstream and marginal audiences and to command critical as well as commercial success. The contributors to this anthology of critical essays seek, through close readings of the director's 10 feature films, to analyze the multiple contexts of Almodovar's phenomenal international success. This volume offers a corrective to the glib approaches that have dominated previous discussions of Almodovar's films, which have treated them, on the one hand, as simply the latest contribution to the travel poster image of passionate, romantic Spain, or, on the other, as historical joyrides through the global pop culture scene. As the first comprehensive study of Almodovar's cinema to be published in North America, the book is also noteworthy for the range of critical and theoretical methodologies that the contributors bring to the study of his works. Drawing upon disciplines that run from psychoanalysis, feminism, queer theory, film and media studies, and cultural theory to the empirical study of audience response, the authors nevertheless share a concern to illuminate the specifically Spanish context of the director's films. While this volume serves the important function of introducing American audiences to post-Franco Spanish culture, it also pursues the complementary goal of projecting contemporary Spain into the critical debate on the forms and functioning of postmodern culture and society.

Autor

Born and raised on the Wirral, Barbara Morris studied French at the then new University of Sussex, and obtained her library qualifications at Queen's University Belfast. Her working life was spent as a librarian in Reading, first at the College of Education (later promoted to higher education) where she specialised in children's literature and taught (briefly) school librarianship. When the college merged with Reading University she became liaison librarian for the Faculty of letters and Social Sciences. Since retiring she has worked as a volunteer for Two Rivers Press, a small local publisher, and at the Centre for Ephemera Studies. A lifelong choral singer she now leads a Singing for the Brain group, along with other members of the Reading Bach Choir.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9780313292453
• ISBN-10: 0313292450
• Artikelnr.: 20998961