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

• Pubblicazione: Malden, Mass., : John Wiley & Sons, 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (586 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.4302/33092
• Classificazione: 778.236; 791.4302/33092
• Altri autori: D'LugoMarvin VernonKathleen M. <1951->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction / Marvin D'Lugo and Kathleen M. Vernon -- Bio-Filmography. Paul Julian Smith Almodóvar's self-fashioning: the economics and aesthetics of deconstructive biography -- Francisco A. Zurián: Creative Beginnings in Almodóvar's Work -- Dona Kercher: Almodóvar and Hitchcock: a sorcerer's apprenticeship -- Alberto Mira: A life, imagined and otherwise: the limits and uses of autobiography in Almodóvar's films -- Spanish Contexts. Marina Diaz López: El Deseo's Itinerary: Almodóvar and the Spanish film industry -- Josetxo Cerdán: Almodóvar and Spanish patterns of film reception and Miguel Fernandez -- Juan Carlos Ibanez: Memory, politics and the post-transition in Almodóvar's cinema -- Adrissn Pérez Melgosa: The ethics of oblivion: personal, national, and cultural memories in the films of Pedro Almodóvar -- At the limits of gender. Leora Lev: Our rapists ourselves: Women and the staging of rape in the cinema of Pedro Almodóvar -- Dean Albritton: Paternity & pathogens: mourning men and the crises of masculinity in Almodóvar -- Noelia Saenz: Domesticating violence in the films of Pedro Almodóvar -- Francisco A. Zurián: La piel que habito: a story of imposed gender and the struggle for identity -- Re-readings. Marsha Kinder: reenvoicements and reverberations in Almodóvar's macro-melodrama -- Celestino Deleyto: The flower of his secret: Carne trémula and the Mise en scene of Desire -- Julian Daniel Gutiérrez-Albila: Scratching the past on the "surface" of the "skin": embodied inter-subjectivity, prosthetic memory, and witnessing in Almodóvar's La mala educación -- Javier Herrera: Almodóvar's Stolen images -- Global Almodóvar. Isolina Ballesteros: Women on the verge of nervous breakdown: from Madrid (1988) to New York (2010) -- Kathleen M. Vernon: Almodóvar's global musical marketplace -- Marvin D'lugo: Almodóvar and Latin America: The making of a transnational aesthetic in Volver -- Jean-Claude Seguin: Is there a French Almodóvar? -- E K Tan: Almodóvar in Asia: Hong Kong, Taiwan and LGBT film culture -- Art and commerce. John D. Sanderson: To the health of the author: art direction in Los abrazos rotos -- Gerard Dapena: Making Spain fashionable -- Vicente Rodriguez-Ortega: Almodóvar, cyberfandom and participatory culture.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 1970's. 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
• Titolo autorizzato: A companion to Pedro Almodóvar
• ISBN: 1-118-32537-0; 1-118-32536-2; 1-78268-826-9; 1-299-24162-X; 1-118-32539-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822627903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors