The films of Pedro Almodovar have demonstrated great crossover
appeal in their ability to attract both mainstream and marginal
audiences and to command critical as well as commercial success.
The contributors to this anthology of critical essays seek, through
close readings of the director's 10 feature films, to analyze the
multiple contexts of Almodovar's phenomenal international success.
This volume offers a corrective to the glib approaches that have
dominated previous discussions of Almodovar's films, which have
treated them, on the one hand, as simply the latest contribution to
the travel poster image of passionate, romantic Spain, or, on the
other, as historical joyrides through the global pop culture scene.
As the first comprehensive study of Almodovar's cinema to be
published in North America, the book is also noteworthy for the
range of critical and theoretical methodologies that the
contributors bring to the study of his works. Drawing upon
disciplines that run from psychoanalysis, feminism, queer theory,
film and media studies, and cultural theory to the empirical study
of audience response, the authors nevertheless share a concern to
illuminate the specifically Spanish context of the director's
films. While this volume serves the important function of
introducing American audiences to post-Franco Spanish culture, it
also pursues the complementary goal of projecting contemporary
Spain into the critical debate on the forms and functioning of
postmodern culture and society.
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