| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Includes filmography: p. [465]-466. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Almodóvar, Pedro -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| Alt Author |
Epps, Bradley S.
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Kakoudaki, Despina.
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| ISBN |
9780816649600 (hc : alk. paper) |
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081664960X (hc : alk. paper) |
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9780816649617 (pb : alk. paper) |
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0816649618 (pb : alk. paper) |
| Description |
496 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
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