A companion to Pedro Almodóvar /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Malden, MA :
John Wiley & Sons,
2013.
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| Series: | Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directors.
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the skin he lives in / Marvin D'Lugo and Kathleen M. Vernon
- Part I. Bio-Filmography: 1. Almodóvar's self-fashioning: the economics and aesthetics of deconstructive biography / Paul Julian Smith; 2. Creative beginnings in Almodóvar's work / Francisco A. Zurián; 3. Almodóvar and Hitchcock: a sorcerer's apprenticeship / Dona Kercher; 4. A life, imagined and otherwise: the limits and uses of autobiography in Almodóvar's films / Alberto Mira
- Part II. Spanish Contexts: 5. El Deseo's "Itinerary:: Almodóvar and the Spanish film industry / Marina Diaz López; 6. Almodóvar and Spanish patterns of film reception / Josetxo Cerdán and Miguel Fernandez Lagayen; 7. Memory, politics and the post-transition in Almodóvar's cinema / Juan Carol Ibáñez; 8. The ethics of oblivion: personal, national, and cultural memories in the films of Pedro Almodóvar / Adrissn Pérez Melgosa
- Part II. At the Limits of Gender: 9. Our rapists ourselves: women and the staging of rape in the cinema of Pedro Almodóvar / Leora Lev; 10. Paternity and pathogens: mourning men and the crises of masculinity in Todo sobre mi madre and Hable con ella / Dean Albritton; 11. Domesticating violence in the films of Pedro Almodóvar / Noelia Saenz; 12. La piel que habito: a story of imposed gender and the struggle for identity / Francisco A. Zurián
- Part IV. Re-Readings: 13. Re-envoicements and reverberations in Almodóvar's macro-melodrama / Marsha Kinder; 14. The flower of his secret: Carne trémula and the Mise en scene of Desire / Celestino Deleyto; 15. Scratching the past on the "surface" of the "skin": embodied inter-subjectivity, prosthetic memory, and witnessing in Almodóvar's La mala educación / Julian Daniel Gutiérrez-Albila; 16. Almodóvar's stolen images / Javier Herrera
- Part V. Global Almodóvar: 17. Women on the verge of nervous breakdown: from Madrid (1988) to New York (2010) / Isolina Ballesteros; 18. Almodóvar's global musical marketplace / Kathleen M. Vernon; 19. Almodóvar and Latin America: The making of a transnational aesthetic in Volver / Marvin D'lugo; 20. Is there a French Almodóvar? / Jean-Claude Seguin; 21. Almodóvar in Asia: Hong Kong, Taiwan and LGBT film culture / E.K. Tan
- Part VI. Art and Commerce: 22. To the health of the author: art direction in Los abrazos rotos / John D. Sanderson; 23. Making Spain fashionable: fashion and design in Pedro Almodóvar's cinema / Gerard Dapena; 24. Almodóvar, cyberfandom and participatory culture / Vicente Rodriguez-Ortega.
