03927nam 2200625Ia 450 991078119060332120220809210414.00-8166-6788-8(CKB)2550000000005129(EBL)471760(OCoLC)646839485(SSID)ssj0000334539(PQKBManifestationID)11255940(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000334539(PQKBWorkID)10260079(PQKB)10340271(MiAaPQ)EBC471760(MdBmJHUP)muse33061(Au-PeEL)EBL471760(CaPaEBR)ebr10340922(CaONFJC)MIL523025(EXLCZ)99255000000000512920090123d2009 ub 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrAll about Almodóvar[electronic resource] a passion for cinema /Brad Epps and Despina Kakoudaki, editorsMinneapolis University of Minnesota Press20091 online resource (505 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-4961-8 0-8166-4960-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Includes filmography.Introduction. Approaching Almodóvar: thirty years of reinvention / Brad Epps and Despina Kakoudaki -- Forms and figures. Almodóvar on television: industry and thematics / Paul Julian Smith -- Queer sound: musical otherness in three films by Pedro Almodóvar / Kathleen M. Vernon -- Performing identities in the cinema of Pedro Almodóvar / Isolina Ballesteros -- Acts of violence in Almodóvar / Peter William Evans -- Heart of farce: Almodóvar's comic complexities / Andy Medhurst -- Melodrama and its discontents. Mimesis and diegesis: Almodóvar and the limits of melodrama / Mark Allinson -- Melancholy melodrama: Almodovarian grief and lost homosexual attachments / Linda Williams -- Intimate strangers: melodrama and coincidence in Talk to her / Despina Kakoudaki -- The limits of representation. Almodóvar's girls / Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit -- All about the brothers: retroseriality in Almodóvar's cinema / Marsha Kinder -- Blind shots and backward glances: reviewing Matador and Labyrinth of passion / Brad Epps -- Missing a beat: syncopated rhythms and subterranean subjects in the spectral economy of Volver / Steven Marsh -- Postnostalgia in Bad education: written on the body of Sara Montiel / Marvin D'Lugo -- The auteur in context. Inside Almodóvar / Ignacio Oliva -- Pepi, Patty, and beyond: cinema and literature in Almodóvar / Francisco A. Zurián -- Bad education: fictional autobiography and meta-film noir / Víctor Fuentes -- Coda. Volver: a filmmaker's diary / Pedro Almodóvar.One of world cinema's most exciting filmmakers, Pedro Almodóvar has been delighting, provoking, arousing, shocking, and-above all-entertaining audiences around the globe since he first burst on the international film scene in the early 1980's. All about Almodóvar offers new perspectives on the filmmaker's artistic vision and cinematic preoccupations, influences, and techniques. Through overviews of his oeuvre and in-depth analyses of specific films, the essays here explore a diverse range of subjects: Almodóvar's nuanced use of television and music in his films; his reworkinMotion picturesSpainMotion PicturesFilm criticismSpainMotion picturesMotion Pictures.Film criticism.791.4302/33092Epps Bradley S1475351Kakoudaki Despina1475352MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781190603321All about Almodóvar3689543UNINA