Ana María Sanchez-Arce

The cinema of Pedro Almodóvar (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526151018
• Artikelnr.: 60752400

Autorenporträt

Ana María Sánchez-Arce

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 The early films: Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón
and Laberinto de pasiones 2 Kicking the habit: Entre tinieblas 3 High
windows and ugly aesthetics: ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto? 4 Faking
Spain: Matador 5 Other voices, other stories: La ley del deseo 6 Pure
theatre: Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios 7 On the verge of a genre
breakdown: ¡Átame!, Tacones lejanos and Kika 8 The end of romance: La flor
de mi secreto 9 Circle lines and memory work: Carne trémula 10 Remembering
children: Todo sobre mi madre 11 Still lives: Hable con ella 12 Faking
memory: La mala educación 13 Motherlands: Volver 14 Archaeology in the
dark: Los abrazos rotos 15 Visual seduction: La piel que habito 16 'Crisis
cinema': Los amantes pasajeros and Julieta Afterword: Dolor y gloria
Filmography References Index