Post-Franco, postmodern : the films of Pedro Almodóvar
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Post-Franco, postmodern : the films of Pedro Almodóvar
（Contributions to the study of popular culture, no. 43）
Greenwood Press, c1995
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: Pedro Almodóvar, Postmodern Auteur by Kathleen M. Vernon and Barbara Morris
Pepi, Luci, Bom and Dark Habits: Lesbian Comedy, Lesbian Tragedy by Paul Julian Smith
Sense or Sensibility, or Latent Heterosexuality and Labyrinth of Passion by James Mandrell
Melodrama Against Itself: What Have I Done to Deserve This? by Kathleen M. Vernon
Tauromachy as a Spectacle of Gender Revision in Matador by Leora Lev
Almodóvar's Laws of Subjectivity and Desire by Barbara Morris
Figuring Hysteria: Disorder and Desire in Three Films by Almodóvar by Brad Epps
Almodóvar's City of Desire by Marvin D'Lugo
From Matricide to Motherlove: High Heels by Marsha Kinder
Almodóvar's Postmodern Cinema: A Work in Progress… by Victor Fuentes
From Rough Trade to Free Trade: Toward a Contextual Analysis of Audience Response to the Films of Pedro Almodóvar by Wendy Rolph
Filmography
Selected Bibliography: "Almodóvar in America"
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"
