Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla

Aesthetics, Ethics and Trauma in the Cinema of Pedro Almodovar (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

One of Spain's most celebrated directors, Pedro Almodovar has won international recognition for his dark comedy-dramas like Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, All About My Mother and Volver. Reconceptualising Almodovar's films as theoretical and political resources, this innovative book examines a neglected aspect of his cinema: its engagement with the traumatic past, with subjective and collective memory, and with the ethical and political meanings that result from this engagement. With close readings of Almodovar's films from the 1990s and 2000s, including Bad Education and The Skin I Live In, Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla explores how Almodovar's cinema mourns and witnesses the traces of trauma, drawing on theoretical approaches from trauma studies, psychoanalysis, philosophy, film studies and visual studies to suggest that his work proposes an ethical model based on our compassionate relations to others, and envisions a world co-inhabited by plurality and difference.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474400114
• Artikelnr.: 54674365

Autorenporträt

Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction: Encountering the Trace 1. Im
Possibility of Not
Returning: Volver 2. Im
Possibility of Not
Sharing: Todo sobre mi madre 3. Im
Possibility of Not
Writing Otherwise: La mala educación 4. Im
Possibility of Not
Succumbing: La piel que habito Notes References Index