D'Lugo / Vernon A Companion to Pedro Almodóvar

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-32539-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 584 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors

Edited by leading authorities on the subject, and bringingtogether a stellar cast of contributors, this detailed appraisal ofPedro Almodóvar's unique cinematic art examines thethemes, style, and aesthetics of his oeuvre and locates itin the context of the profound cultural transformations in Spainsince the 1970s.
* Brings together a stellar cast of contributors from across theglobe including recognized and established specialists aswell as talented younger scholars
* Features contributions by Spanish film historians, wherestudies of Almodóvar's work have been underrepresentedin the academic literature
* Deploys new approaches to the analysis of film authorship byexploring contextual issues such as Almodóvar'stransnational appeal and the political dimensions of his works
* Traces the director's fruitful collaborations in theareas of art and design, fashion and music

Autoren/Hrsg.

D'Lugo, Marvin

Vernon, Kathleen M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 andAesthetics of Deconstructive Autobiography 21
Paul Julian Smith
2 Creative Beginnings in Almodóvar's Work 39
Francisco A. Zurian
3 Almodóvar and Hitchcock: A Sorcerer'sApprenticeship 59
Dona Kercher
4 A Life, Imagined and Otherwise: The Limits and Uses ofAutobiography in Almodóvar's Films 88
Alberto Mira
Part II Spanish Contexts 105
5 El Deseo's "Itinerary": Almodóvar andthe Spanish Film Industry 107
Marina Díaz López
6 Almodóvar and Spanish Patterns of Film Reception129
Josetxo Cerdán and Miguel Fernández Labayen
7 Memory, Politics, and the Post-Transition inAlmodóvar's Cinema 153
Juan Carlos Ibáñez
8 The Ethics of Oblivion: Personal, National, and CulturalMemories 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 theCinema of Pedro Almodóvar 203
Leora Lev
10 Paternity and Pathogens: Mourning Men and the Crises ofMasculinity in Todo Sobre Mi Madre and Hable Con Ella 225
Dean Allbritton
11 Domesticating Violence in the Films of Pedro Almodóvar244
Noelia Saenz
12 La piel que habito: A Story of Imposed Gender and theStruggle for Identity 262
Francisco A. Zurian
Part IV Re-readings 279
13 Re-envoicements and Reverberations in Almodóvar'sMacro-Melodrama 281
Marsha Kinder
14 The Flower of His Secret: Carne trémula and the Mise enScène of Desire 304
Celestino Deleyto
15 Scratching the Past on the Surface of the Skin: EmbodiedIntersubjectivity, Prosthetic Memory, and Witnessing inAlmodóvar'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 aTransnational 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 FilmCulture 453
E. K. Tan
Part VI Art and Commerce 469
22 To the Health of the Author: Art Direction in Los abrazosrotos 471
John D. Sanderson
23 Making Spain Fashionable: Fashion and Design in PedroAlmodóvar's Cinema 495
Gerard Dapena
24 Almodóvar, Cyberfandom, and Participatory Culture524
Vicente Rodríguez Ortega
Index 551

Über Autor(innen)

Marvin D'Lugo is Professor of Spanish and AdjunctProfessor of Screen Studies at Clark University, Massachusettswhere he teaches courses on Spanish and Latin-American cinema. Hehas published a number of books including PedroAlmodóvar (2006) in the University of IllinoisPress' Contemporary Film Directors series.
Kathleen M. Vernon is Associate Professor of HispanicLanguages and Literatures at the State University of New York atStony Brook. She is author and editor of numerous studies onSpanish cinema and culture including Post-Franco, Postmodern:The Films of Pedro Almodóvar (1995).