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A Companion to Pedro Almodó...
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monografia Rebiun25963823 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun25963823 m o d cr |n||||||||| 130309s2013 xx ob 001 0 eng d 2012033137 839386322 841908601 842857019 1162311540 9781118325391 1118325397 9781405195829 Cloth) 1405195827 Cloth) 9781299241626 MyiLibrary) 129924162X MyiLibrary) 1118325370 9781118325377 1118325362 9781118325360 1782688269 9781782688266 455412 MIL EBLCP eng pn EBLCP OCLCQ CDX OCLCO YDXCP OCLCF OCLCQ MERUC IDEBK OCLCQ ZCU ICG AU@ OCLCQ KUK DKC UMR OCLCQ VLY D'Lugo, Marvin A Companion to Pedro Almodóvar edited by Marvin D'Lugo and Kathleen M. Vernon Chicester Wiley 2013 Chicester Chicester Wiley 1 online resource (586 pages) 1 online resource (586 pages) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directors Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors Acknowledgments Edited by leading authorities on the subject, and bringing together a stellar cast of contributors, this detailed appraisal of Pedro Almodóvar's unique cinematic art examines the themes, style, and aesthetics of his oeuvre and locates it in the context of the profound cultural transformations in Spain since the 1970s. Brings together a stellar cast of contributors from across the globe including recognized and established specialists as well as talented younger scholars Features contributions by Spanish film historians, where studies of Almodóvar's work have been Includes bibliographical references and index 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 English Almodovar, Pedro- Criticism and interpretation Almodovar, Pedro Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Vernon, Kathleen M. 1951-) Print version D'Lugo, Marvin. A Companion to Pedro Almdovar. Chicester : Wiley, ©2013 9781405195829 Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directors