Author: Sanchez-Acre
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780719074424
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Author: Ana María Sánchez-Arce
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526151014
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 457

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This book offers a comprehensive film-by-film analysis of Spain’s most famous living director, Pedro Almodóvar. It shows how Almodóvar's films draw on various national cinemas and genres, including Spanish cinema of the dictatorship, European art cinema, Hollywood melodrama and film noir. It also argues that Almodóvar's work is a form of social critique, his films consistently engaging with and challenging stereotypes about traditional and contemporary Spain in order to address Spain's traumatic historical past and how it continues to inform the present. Drawing on scholarship in both English and Spanish, the book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of film studies and Hispanic studies, scholars of contemporary cinema and general readers with a passion for the films of Pedro Almodóvar.

Author: Bradley S. Epps
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 081664960X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 506

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Author: Paul Julian Smith
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859843048
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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The huge international success of his latest feature, All About My Mother, has finally granted Pedro Almodovar the recognition he deserves, as the most artistically ambitious and commercially consistent film-maker in Europe.

Author: Nuria Vidal
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cinema
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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A través de varias entrevistas personales realizadas por la autora, se recoge información sobre la vida y obra del director de cine. Se da una visión crítica sobre las películas, se realiza una "guía almodovariana" con la finalidad de servir de diccionario temático para seguir la evolución de los objetos, lugares o personajes y una filmografía completa de sus trabajos profesionales acompañados de una sinopsis.

Author: Ernesto R. Acevedo-Munoz
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1838717560
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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The book provides a detailed introduction to the essential themes, style, and aesthetics of Pedro Almodovar's films, put in the context of Spain's profound cultural transitions since 1980. With precise and close analysis, the book covers the major concerns of the most successful of all Spanish film directors and makes direct, clear connections to the logic of Almodovar's aesthetic and stylistic choices. By spanning the entirety of Pedro Almodovar's feature making career, the book emphasizes the director's sensibility to make the outrageous believable and to always give a unique spin to the issues Spanish history, culture and identity. A detailed and comprehensive approach to all of Pedro Almodovar's feature films from the outrageous 1980 'Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls on the Heap' to the sophisticated 2004 'Bad Education', this book provides more than an introduction an intimate look at the topics, style, aesthetics and cultural sensibilities of Spain's most distinguished and celebrated film director since Luis Bunuel. By focusing on a film-by-film, and often scene-by-scene analysis, this book offers a meticulous interpretation of characters, situations, allusions and cultural intersections, as well as emphasizing the meaning and weight of cultural, historical and social contexts. The book traces the evolution of Almodovar's career, from the perspective of aesthetic, narrative and stylistic concerns and places those changes in the logical context of Spain's historical trajectory from the end of Franco's dictatorship to the transition to democracy, exploring Almodovar's interest on issues of identity, sexuality, and nationalism.

Author: Pedro Almodóvar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783836547925
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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An updated edition of The Pedro Almodóvar Archives, offering inside access to the cult Spanish director who beguiles audiences worldwide with his thrilling dissertations on desire, passion, and identity. With behind-the-scenes pictures and personal reminiscences, Almodóvar himself guides the reader through his singular journey from its early...

Author: Gwynne Edwards
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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"This important new study will appeal to Almodovar's devotees and to film students alike, with its chronological examination of the director's career. It sheds light on each individual film, demonstrates the connections between one movie and another and examines the director's progression in terms of genre, style and cinematic technique to reveal Almodovar's growing mastery of his art."--BOOK JACKET.

Author: Cristina Sánchez-Conejero
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 144381458X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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Spanishness in the Spanish Novel and Cinema of the 20th-21st Century is an exploration of the general concept of “Spanishness” as all things related to Spain, specifically as the multiple meanings of “Spanishness” and the different ways of being Spanish are depicted in 20th-21st century literary and cinematic fiction of Spain. This book also represents a call for a re-evaluation of what being Spanish means not just in post-Franco Spain but also in the Spain of the new millennium. The reader will find treatments of some of the crucial themes in Spanish culture such as immigration, nationalisms, and affiliation with the European Union as well as many others of contemporary relevance such as time, memory, and women studies that defy exclusivist and clear-cut single notions of Spanishness. These explorations will help contextualize what it means to be Spanish in present day Spain and in the light of globalization while also dissipating stereotypical notions of Spain and Spanishness.

Author: I. Hedges
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137465123
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 325

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Cinema has long played a crucial role in the way that societies represent themselves. Hedges discusses the role of cinema in creating cultural memory within a global perspective that spans five continents. The book's innovative approach and approachable style should transform the way that we think of film and its social effects.