A Companion to Pedro Almodóvar

A Companion to Pedro Almodóvar / edited by Marvin D'Lugo and Kathleen M. Vernon.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: D'Lugo, Marvin
Other Authors: Vernon, Kathleen M., 1951-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicester : Wiley, 2013.
Series:Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directors.
Subjects:
Almodóvar, Pedro > Criticism and interpretation.
Almodóvar, Pedro
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • A Companion to Pedro Almodóvar; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Skin He Lives In; A Spotlight on the Self-Conscious Auteur; The Companion to Pedro Almodóvar; Notes; References; Part I Bio-Filmography; 1 Almodóvar's Self-Fashioning: The Economics and Aesthetics of Deconstructive Autobiography; Notes; References; 2 Creative Beginnings in Almodóvar's Work; Searching for His Own Voice; The Short Stories in Relatos; Epilogue; Notes; References; 3 Almodóvar and Hitchcock: A Sorcerer's Apprenticeship; Introduction: Self-Education via Hitchcock.
  • Almodóvar's Guilt Complex from Spellbound to Laberinto de pasionesCasting and Close-ups in Entre tinieblas and Stage Fright; The Domestic Crime Scene Enlivened by Wallpaper: "Lamb to the Slaughter" and ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto!; Looking through Objects and Almodóvar's "MacGuffin": From Dial M for Murder, The 39 Steps, Strangers on a Train, and Rear Window to Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios; Conclusions; Notes; References; 4 A Life, Imagined and Otherwise: The Limits and Uses of Autobiography in Almodóvar's Films; Inventing the Self: Autobiography between Fact and Fantasy.
  • A Portrait of the Young Gay Man as a Star-to-be: Personal Experience into Cultural MythologiesNotes; References; Part II Spanish Contexts; 5 El Deseo's "Itinerary": Almodóvar and the Spanish Film Industry; Marks of Identity; Family Resemblance; The Back Story: Almodóvar; The Course of Things: El Deseo's Other Films; Other Stories: Latin American Co-productions; Home Cinema; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; 6 Almodóvar and Spanish Patterns of Film Reception; La ley del deseo; Kika; Hable con ella; Conclusions; Notes; References.
  • 7 Memory, Politics, and the Post-Transition in Almodóvar's CinemaFrom Novela Rosa to Film Noir: The Breakdown of the Transitional Paradigm; Carne trémula: The Irruption of History; Memory and the Redemption of Theater in Todo sobre mi madre; Reinterpreting the Past: La mala educación; Conclusions; Notes; References; 8 The Ethics of Oblivion: Personal, National, and Cultural Memories in the Films of Pedro Almodóvar; Visual Palimpsests and Narrative Arrhythmias; Rhopography: Making the Apparently Trivial into a Movie Star; The Ethics of Makeup; Notes; References.
  • Part III At the Limits of Gender9 Our Rapists, Ourselves: Women and the Staging of Rape in the Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar; Specularizing Visions of Excess: Of Human Bondage, Petits Mortes, Parts Maudites, and Rape; Masters of Delusion; Immaterial Girls: Of Graves and Private Places; Notes; References; 10 Paternity and Pathogens: Mourning Men and the Crises of Masculinity in Todo Sobre Mi Madre and Hable Con Ella; Notes; References; 11 Domesticating Violence in the Films of Pedro Almodóvar; Notes; References; 12 La piel que habito: A Story of Imposed Gender and the Struggle for Identity.

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