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  • ISBN:
    0816649618
  • ISBN-13:
    9780816649617
  • PUB. DATE:
    May 2009
  • PUBLISHER:
    University of Minnesota Press
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All about Almodovar: A Passion for Cinema by Brad Epps (Editor), Despina Kakoudaki (Editor)

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All about Almodovar

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  • Pub. Date: May 2009
  • Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
  • Sales Rank: 1,230,290

Synopsis

One of world cinema's most exciting filmmakers, Pedro Almodóvar has been delighting, provoking, arousing, shocking, and-above all-entertaining audiences around the globe since he first burst on the international film scene in the early 1980s.

All about Almodóvar offers new perspectives on the filmmaker's artistic vision and cinematic preoccupations, influences, and techniques. Through overviews of his oeuvre and in-depth analyses of specific films, the essays here explore a diverse range of subjects: Almodóvar's 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 inquireies into visuality and its limits. Closing with Almodóvar's own diary account of the making of Volver and featuring never-before-seen photographs from El Deseo production studio, all about Almodóvar both reflects and illuminates its subject's dazzling eclecticism.

Biography

Brad Epps is professor of romance languages and literatures and chair of studies in women, gender, and sexuality at Harvard University.

Despina Kakoudaki is assistant professor of literature and film at American University.