LEADER 03927nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910821699903321 005 20220809210414.0 010 $a0-8166-6788-8 035 $a(CKB)2550000000005129 035 $a(EBL)471760 035 $a(OCoLC)646839485 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000334539 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11255940 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000334539 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10260079 035 $a(PQKB)10340271 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC471760 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse33061 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL471760 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10340922 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL523025 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000005129 100 $a20090123d2009 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aAll about Almodo?var$b[electronic resource] $ea passion for cinema /$fBrad Epps and Despina Kakoudaki, editors 210 $aMinneapolis $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (505 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8166-4961-8 311 $a0-8166-4960-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 320 $aIncludes filmography. 327 $aIntroduction. Approaching Almodo?var: thirty years of reinvention / Brad Epps and Despina Kakoudaki -- Forms and figures. Almodo?var on television: industry and thematics / Paul Julian Smith -- Queer sound: musical otherness in three films by Pedro Almodo?var / Kathleen M. Vernon -- Performing identities in the cinema of Pedro Almodo?var / Isolina Ballesteros -- Acts of violence in Almodo?var / Peter William Evans -- Heart of farce: Almodo?var's comic complexities / Andy Medhurst -- Melodrama and its discontents. Mimesis and diegesis: Almodo?var 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. Almodo?var's girls / Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit -- All about the brothers: retroseriality in Almodo?var'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 Almodo?var / Ignacio Oliva -- Pepi, Patty, and beyond: cinema and literature in Almodo?var / Francisco A. Zuria?n -- Bad education: fictional autobiography and meta-film noir / Vi?ctor Fuentes -- Coda. Volver: a filmmaker's diary / Pedro Almodo?var. 330 $aOne of world cinema's most exciting filmmakers, Pedro Almodo?var 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 Almodo?var 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: Almodo?var's nuanced use of television and music in his films; his reworkin 606 $aMotion pictures$zSpain 606 $aMotion Pictures 606 $aFilm criticism 607 $aSpain 615 0$aMotion pictures 615 2$aMotion Pictures. 615 0$aFilm criticism. 676 $a791.4302/33092 701 $aEpps$b Bradley S$01607833 701 $aKakoudaki$b Despina$01607834 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821699903321 996 $aAll about Almodo?var$93934265 997 $aUNINA