Malden, MA : John Wiley & Sons, 2013.
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Part of the series Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directors;Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directors.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction / Marvin D’Lugo and Kathleen M. Vernon — Bio-Filmography. Paul Julian Smith Almodóvar’s self-fashioning: the economics and aesthetics of deconstructive biography — Francisco A. Zurián: Creative Beginnings in Almodóvar’s Work — Dona Kercher: Almodóvar and Hitchcock: a sorcerer’s apprenticeship — Alberto Mira: A life, imagined and otherwise: the limits and uses of autobiography in Almodóvar’s films — Spanish Contexts. Marina Diaz López: El Deseo’s Itinerary: Almodóvar and the Spanish film industry — Josetxo Cerdán: Almodóvar and Spanish patterns of film reception and Miguel Fernandez — Juan Carlos Ibanez: Memory, politics and the post-transition in Almodóvar’s cinema — Adrissn Pérez Melgosa: The ethics of oblivion: personal, national, and cultural memories in the films of Pedro Almodóvar — At the limits of gender. Leora Lev: Our rapists ourselves: Women and the staging of rape in the cinema of Pedro Almodóvar — Dean Albritton: Paternity & pathogens: mourning men and the crises of masculinity in Almodóvar — Noelia Saenz: Domesticating violence in the films of Pedro Almodóvar — Francisco A. Zurián: La piel que habito: a story of imposed gender and the struggle for identity — Re-readings. Marsha Kinder: reenvoicements and reverberations in Almodóvar’s macro-melodrama — Celestino Deleyto: The flower of his secret: Carne trémula and the Mise en scene of Desire — Julian Daniel Gutiérrez-Albila: Scratching the past on the surface of the skin : embodied inter-subjectivity, prosthetic memory, and witnessing in Almodóvar’s La mala educación — Javier Herrera: Almodóvar’s Stolen images — Global Almodóvar. Isolina Ballesteros: Women on the verge of nervous breakdown: from Madrid (1988) to New York (2010) — Kathleen M. Vernon: Almodóvar’s global musical marketplace — Marvin D’lugo: Almodóvar and Latin America: The making of a transnational aesthe
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