Ana María Sanchez-Arce 
The cinema of Pedro Almodóvar [EPUB ebook] 

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.

Innehållsförteckning

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

Om författaren

Andrew Willis is Senior Lecturer in Media and Performance at the University of Salford