One of world cinema's most exciting filmmakers, Pedro Almodovar has
been delighting, provoking, arousing, shocking, and-above
all-entertaining audiences around the globe since he first burst
onto the international film scene in the early 1980s. All about
Almodovar offers new perspectives on the filmmaker's artistic
vision and cinematic preoccupations, influences, and techniques.
Through overviews of the filmmaker's oeuvre and in-depth analyses
of specific films, the essays here explore a diverse range of
subjects: Almodovar'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 inquiries into visuality and its limits.
Closing with Almodovar's own diary account of the making of Volver
and featuring never-before-seen photographs from El Deseo studio,
All about Almodovar both reflects and illuminates its subject's
dazzling eclecticism. Contributors: Mark Allinson, U of Leicester;
Pedro Almodovar; Isolina Ballesteros, Baruch College; Leo Bersani,
UC Berkeley; Marvin D'Lugo, Clark U; Ulysse Dutoit, UC Berkeley;
Peter William Evans, Queen Mary U of London; Victor Fuentes, UC
Santa Barbara; Marsha Kinder, USC; Steven Marsh, U of Illinois,
Chicago; Andy Medhurst, U of Sussex; Ignacio Olivia, Universidad
Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca; Paul Julian Smith, U of Cambridge;
Kathleen M. Vernon, SUNY Stony Brook; Linda Williams, UC Berkeley;
Francisco A. Zurian, U Carlos III, Madrid.
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