ISBN10: 0252073614, ISBN13: 9780252073618, [publisher: University of Illinois Press, Baltimore] Softcover First Edition Paperback. Perhaps the best-known Spanish filmmaker to international audiences, Pedro Almodovar gained the widespread attention of English-speaking critics and fans with the Oscar-nominated Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and the celebrated dark comedy Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!.Marvin D'Lugo offers a concise, informed, and insightful commentary on a preeminent force in modern cinema. D'Lugo follows Almodovar's career chronologically, tracing the director's works and their increasing complexity in terms of theme and the Spanish film tradition. Drawing on a wide range of critical sources, D'Lugo explores Almodovar's use of melodrama and Hollywood genre film, his self-invention as a filmmaker, and his on-screen sexual politics. D'Lugo also discusses what he calls "geocultural positioning," that is, Almodovar's paradoxical ability to use his marginal positionsin terms of his class, geographical origin, and identityto develop an expressive language that is emotionally recognizable by audiences worldwide. Two fascinating interviews with the director round out the volume.An exciting consideration of an arthouse giant, Pedro Almodovar mixes original interpretations into an analysis sure to reward film students and specialists alike. Follows Pedro Almodovar's career chronologically as he moves ...

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ISBN10: 0252073614, ISBN13: 9780252073618, [publisher: University of Illinois Press] Softcover Follows Pedro Almodovar's career chronologically as he moves from amateur to international celebrity, and understands the films' complexity in terms of the director's central themes and the Spanish film tradition from which he comes. This work is of interest to new film students and specialists alike. Series: Contemporary Film Directors. Num Pages: 192 pages, 7 photographs. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 210 x 13. Weight in Grams: 266. . 2006. Illustrated. Paperback. . . . .
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