A Companion to Pedro Almodóvar (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: D'Lugo, Marvin; Vernon, Kathleen M.

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Produktbeschreibung

A Companion to Pedro Almodóvar "Marvin D'Lugo and Kathleen M. Vernon give us the ideal companion to Pedro Almodóvar's films. Established and emerging writers offer a rainbow of insights for fans as well as academics." Jerry W. Carlson, Professor of Film Studies, The City College & Graduate Center CUNY "Rarely has a contemporary film artist been treated to the kind of broad, rich discussion of their work that can be found in A Companion to Pedro Almodóvar." Richard Peña, Professor of Film Studies, Columbia University Once the enfant terrible of Spain's youth culture explosion, the Movida, Pedro Almodóvar's distinctive film style and career longevity have made him one of the most successful and internationally known filmmakers of his generation. Offering a state-of-the-art appraisal of Almodóvar's cinema, this original collection is a searching analysis of his technique and cultural significance that includes work by leading authorities on Almodóvar as well as talented young scholars. Crucially included here are contributions by film historians from Almodóvar's native Spain, where he has been undervalued by the academic and critical establishment. With a balance between textual and contextual approaches, the book expands the scope of previous work on the director to explore his fruitful collaborations with fellow professionals in the areas of art design, fashion, and music as well as the growing reach of a global Almodóvar brand beyond Europe and the United States to Latin America and Asia. It also proposes a reevaluation of the political meanings and engagement of his cinema from the perspective of the profound cultural and historical upheavals that have transformed Spain since the 1970s.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 584
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118325391
• Artikelnr.: 37757617

Autorenporträt

Marvin D'Lugo is Professor of Spanish and Adjunct Professor of Screen Studies at Clark University, Massachusetts where he teaches courses on Spanish and Latin American cinema. He has published a number of books including Pedro Almodóvar (2006) in the University of Illinois Press' Contemporary Film Directors series. Kathleen M. Vernon is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is author and editor of numerous studies on Spanish cinema and culture including Post-Franco, Postmodern: The Films of Pedro Almodóvar (1995).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xv Introduction: The Skin He
Lives In 1 Marvin D'Lugo and Kathleen M. Vernon Part I Bio-Filmography 19 1
Almodóvar's Self-Fashioning: The Economics and Aesthetics of Deconstructive
Autobiography 21 Paul Julian Smith 2 Creative Beginnings in Almodóvar's
Work 39 Francisco A. Zurian 3 Almodóvar and Hitchcock: A Sorcerer's
Apprenticeship 59 Dona Kercher 4 A Life, Imagined and Otherwise: The Limits
and Uses of Autobiography in Almodóvar's Films 88 Alberto Mira Part II
Spanish Contexts 105 5 El Deseo's "Itinerary": Almodóvar and the Spanish
Film Industry 107 Marina Díaz López 6 Almodóvar and Spanish Patterns of
Film Reception 129 Josetxo Cerdán and Miguel Fernández Labayen 7 Memory,
Politics, and the Post-Transition in Almodóvar's Cinema 153 Juan Carlos
Ibáñez 8 The Ethics of Oblivion: Personal, National, and Cultural Memories
in the Films of Pedro Almodóvar 176 Adrián Pérez Melgosa Part III At the
Limits of Gender 201 9 Our Rapists, Ourselves: Women and the Staging of
Rape in the Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar 203 Leora Lev 10 Paternity and
Pathogens: Mourning Men and the Crises of Masculinity in Todo Sobre Mi
Madre and Hable Con Ella 225 Dean Allbritton 11 Domesticating Violence in
the Films of Pedro Almodóvar 244 Noelia Saenz 12 La piel que habito: A
Story of Imposed Gender and the Struggle for Identity 262 Francisco A.
Zurian Part IV Re-readings 279 13 Re-envoicements and Reverberations in
Almodóvar's Macro-Melodrama 281 Marsha Kinder 14 The Flower of His Secret:
Carne trémula and the Mise en Scène of Desire 304 Celestino Deleyto 15
Scratching the Past on the Surface of the Skin: Embodied Intersubjectivity,
Prosthetic Memory, and Witnessing in Almodóvar's La mala educación 322
Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla 16 Almodóvar's Stolen Images 345 Javier
Herrera Part V Global Almodóvar 365 17 Women on the Verge of a Nervous
Breakdown: From Madrid (1988) to New York (2010) 367 Isolina Ballesteros 18
Almodóvar's Global Musical Marketplace 387 Kathleen M. Vernon 19 Almodóvar
and Latin America: The Making of a Transnational Aesthetic in Volver 412
Marvin D'Lugo 20 Is there a French Almodóvar? 432 Jean-Claude Seguin 21
Almodóvar in Asia: Hong Kong, Taiwan, and LGBT Film Culture 453 E. K. Tan
Part VI Art and Commerce 469 22 To the Health of the Author: Art Direction
in Los abrazos rotos 471 John D. Sanderson 23 Making Spain Fashionable:
Fashion and Design in Pedro Almodóvar's Cinema 495 Gerard Dapena 24
Almodóvar, Cyberfandom, and Participatory Culture 524 Vicente Rodríguez
Ortega Index 551