All about Almodovar

Author : Brad Epps,Despina Kakoudaki

Hardback

Published : Thursday 21 May 2009

ISBN : 9780816649600

Price : €78.39

Description

One of world cinemaâ?Ts most exciting filmmakers, Pedro AlmodA3var has been delighting, provoking, arousing, shocking, andâ?"above allâ?"entertaining audiences around the globe since he first burst onto the international film scene in the early 1980s. All about AlmodA3var offers new perspectives on the filmmakerâ?Ts artistic vision and cinematic preoccupations, influences, and techniques. Through overviews of the filmmakerâ?Ts oeuvre and in-depth analyses of specific films, the essays here explore a diverse range of subjects: AlmodA3varâ?Ts nuanced use of television and music in his films; his reworkings of traditional film genres such as comedy, horror, and film noir; his penchant for melodrama and its relationship to melancholy, violence, and coincidence; his intricate questioning of sexual and national identities; and his increasingly sophisticated inquiries into visuality and its limits. Closing with AlmodA3varâ?Ts own diary account of the making of Volver and featuring never-before-seen photographs from El Deseo studio, All about AlmodA3var both reflects and illuminates its subjectâ?Ts dazzling eclecticism. Contributors: Mark Allinson, U of Leicester; Pedro AlmodA3var; Isolina Ballesteros, Baruch College; Leo Bersani, UC Berkeley; Marvin Dâ?TLugo, Clark U; Ulysse Dutoit, UC Berkeley; Peter William Evans, Queen Mary U of London; VA-ctor Fuentes, UC Santa Barbara; Marsha Kinder, USC; Steven Marsh, U of Illinois, Chicago; Andy Medhurst, U of Sussex; Ignacio Olivia, Universidad Castillaâ?"La Mancha, Cuenca; Paul Julian Smith, U of Cambridge; Kathleen M. Vernon, SUNY Stony Brook; Linda Williams, UC Berkeley; Francisco A. ZuriA¡n, U Carlos III, Madrid.

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