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Almodóvar on Almodóvar

Author : Pedro Almodovar
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9780571231928
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Almodóvar on Almodóvar written by Pedro Almodovar and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-02-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pedro Almodóvar's films—such as Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, All About My Mother, and Talk to Her, to name a few—are colorful and deeply felt celebrations of life and love. The influence of these works, which have been feted around the world, has been immense, and Almodóvar on Almodóvar tells the personal story of the man and his wonderfully vivid and outrageous vision. Almodóvar came of age during an austere time in rural Spain: the 1950s, the age of the Cold War, of mambo, of Balenciaga, of the Korean War, of the Hungarian Revolution, of the death of Stalin. But none of these events bore any impact on his village. In response, Almodóvar proceeded to carve for himself a unique niche in contemporary cinema with films bursting with vibrant energy and vivid, primary colors—each frame saturated with passions, releasing a pure, visual, visceral emotion. In these frank and passionate conversations, Almodóvar discusses his astonishing life and career with a humor that is distinctly his own.

Pedro Almodóvar

Author : Marvin D'Lugo
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252054717
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Pedro Almodóvar written by Marvin D'Lugo and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2023-02-03 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the best-known Spanish filmmaker to international audiences, Pedro Almodóvar 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 Almodóvar'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 Almodóvar'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, Almodóvar's paradoxical ability to use his marginal positions—in terms of his class, geographical origin, and identity—to 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 Almodóvar mixes original interpretations into an analysis sure to reward film students and specialists alike.

Pedro Almodóvar

Author : Pedro Almodóvar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781578065684
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (656 download)

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Download or read book Pedro Almodóvar written by Pedro Almodóvar and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of interviews that documents the 22-year long cinematic career of the most internationally celebrated Spanish art-film director since Luís Buñuel

All about Almodóvar

Author : Bradley S. Epps
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 081664960X
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book All about Almodóvar written by Bradley S. Epps and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session

Desire Unlimited

Author : Paul Julian Smith
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859847787
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book Desire Unlimited written by Paul Julian Smith and published by Verso. This book was released on 2000 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The huge international success of his latest feature, All About My Mother, has finally granted Pedro Almodovar the recognition he deserves, as the most artistically ambitious and commercially consistent film-maker in Europe.

Almodóvar on Almodóvar

Author : Pedro Almodóvar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571175444
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (754 download)

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Download or read book Almodóvar on Almodóvar written by Pedro Almodóvar and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pedro Almodovar has been called 'the Spanish Andy Warhol' for his influence on Spanish popular culture. Almodovar comes from an austere background in rural Spain. It was the 1950s, the age of the Cold War, of mambo, of Balenciaga, of the Korean War, of the Hungarian Revolution, of the death of Stalin. But none of these events had any effect on his village. 'I felt like an astronaut at the court of King Arthur.' In response, Almodovar proceeded to carve for himself a unique niche in contemporary cinema with films bursting with vibrant energy and vivid, primary colours - each frame saturated with passions, releasing a pure, visual, visceral emotion. Above all, Almodovar's films - such as Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Law of Desire, and Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, to name a few - are deeply felt celebrations of desire. In these frank and passionate conversations, Almodovar discusses his career to date with a humour that is distinctly his own.

A Companion to Pedro Almodóvar

Author : Marvin D'Lugo
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405195827
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Pedro Almodóvar written by Marvin D'Lugo and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-22 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Pedro Almodóvar “Marvin D’Lugo and Kathleen M. Vernon give us the ideal companion to Pedro Almodóvar’s films. Established and emerging writers offer a rainbow of insights for fans as well as academics.” Jerry W. Carlson, Professor of Film Studies, The City College & Graduate Center CUNY “Rarely has a contemporary film artist been treated to the kind of broad, rich discussion of their work that can be found in A Companion to Pedro Almodóvar.” Richard Peña, Professor of Film Studies, Columbia University Once the enfant terrible of Spain’s youth culture explosion, the Movida, Pedro Almodóvar’s distinctive film style and career longevity have made him one of the most successful and internationally known filmmakers of his generation. Offering a state-of-the-art appraisal of Almodóvar’s cinema, this original collection is a searching analysis of his technique and cultural significance that includes work by leading authorities on Almodóvar as well as talented young scholars. Crucially included here are contributions by film historians from Almodóvar’s native Spain, where he has been undervalued by the academic and critical establishment. With a balance between textual and contextual approaches, the book expands the scope of previous work on the director to explore his fruitful collaborations with fellow professionals in the areas of art design, fashion, and music as well as the growing reach of a global Almodóvar brand beyond Europe and the United States to Latin America and Asia. It also proposes a reevaluation of the political meanings and engagement of his cinema from the perspective of the profound cultural and historical upheavals that have transformed Spain since the 1970s.

Almodóvar

Author : Gwynne Edwards
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Almodóvar written by Gwynne Edwards and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This important new study will appeal to Almodovar's devotees and to film students alike, with its chronological examination of the director's career. It sheds light on each individual film, demonstrates the connections between one movie and another and examines the director's progression in terms of genre, style and cinematic technique to reveal Almodovar's growing mastery of his art."--BOOK JACKET.

Masters of Cinema: Pedro Almodóvar

Author : Thomas Sotinel
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9782866425678
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Masters of Cinema: Pedro Almodóvar written by Thomas Sotinel and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2010-11-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pedro Almodóvar (Spain, b. 1951) single-handedlyrepresents the revival of Spanish cinema as partof the cultural flowering of the Movida Madrileñain the 1980s. New York was first to hail the unbridledimagination of this provocative director, whose films are filled with transsexuals, neurotics(Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,1988) and even d

The Pedro Almodóvar Archives

Author : Pedro Almodóvar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783836547925
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (479 download)

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Download or read book The Pedro Almodóvar Archives written by Pedro Almodóvar and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated edition of The Pedro Almodóvar Archives, offering inside access to the cult Spanish director who beguiles audiences worldwide with his thrilling dissertations on desire, passion, and identity. With behind-the-scenes pictures and personal reminiscences, Almodóvar himself guides the reader through his singular journey from its early...

Pedro Almodovar

Author : Sanchez-Acre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780719074424
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Pedro Almodovar written by Sanchez-Acre and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Spanish Labyrinth

Author : Mark Allinson
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
ISBN 13 : 9781860645075
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book A Spanish Labyrinth written by Mark Allinson and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2001-08-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AlmodOvar is Spain's most successful and controversial director, representing a unique blend of art-house auteur and popular film-maker. His films, with their mix of Hollywood and European styles and of popular melodrama and comedy, have been attracting growing international audiences since the success of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. A Spanish Labyrinth is a much needed, clear, and comprehensive introduction to the films of AlmodOvar, investigating the cultural and national contexts for his work, issues of gender, sexuality, stars, genre, visual style, music, and much more. It is the ideal companion to AlmodOvar for students of film and Hispanic Studies, as well as those generally interested in film and Spanish culture.

A Manual for Cleaning Women

Author : Lucia Berlin
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374712867
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book A Manual for Cleaning Women written by Lucia Berlin and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I have always had faith that the best writers will rise to the top, like cream, sooner or later, and will become exactly as well-known as they should be-their work talked about, quoted, taught, performed, filmed, set to music, anthologized. Perhaps, with the present collection, Lucia Berlin will begin to gain the attention she deserves." -Lydia Davis A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all her own, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday, uncovering moments of grace in the Laundromats and halfway houses of the American Southwest, in the homes of the Bay Area upper class, among switchboard operators and struggling mothers, hitchhikers and bad Christians. Readers will revel in this remarkable collection from a master of the form and wonder how they'd ever overlooked her in the first place.

Talk to Her

Author : A. W. Eaton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135977496
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Talk to Her written by A. W. Eaton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-10-27 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pedro Almodóvar is one of the most renowned film directors of recent years. Talk to Her is one of the most discussed and controversial of all his films. Dealing principally with the issue of rape, it also offers profound insights into the nature of love and friendship whilst raising important philosophical and moral questions in unsettling and often paradoxical ways. This is the first book to explore and address the philosophical aspects of Almodóvar’s film. Opening with a helpful introduction by Noël Carroll that places the film in context, specially commissioned chapters examine the following topics: The relationship between art and morality and the problem of 'immoralism' Moral injury and its role in the way we form moral judgments, including the ethics of love and friendship The nature of dialogue, sexual objectification and what 'listening to' means in the context of gender Almodóvar's use of allusion and the unmasking of appearances to explore hidden themes in human nature. Including a biography of Almodóvar, Talk to Her is essential reading for students interested in philosophy and film as well as ethics and gender. It is also provides an accessible and informative insight into philosophy for those in related disciplines such as film studies, literature and religion. Contributors: Noël Carroll, A. W. Eaton, Cynthia Freeland, Robert B. Pippin, C.D.C. Reeve, and George M. Wilson

Post-Franco, Postmodern

Author : Kathleen M. Vernon
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Post-Franco, Postmodern written by Kathleen M. Vernon and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1995-01-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume seeks to analyse the multiple contexts of Almodovar's international success. It draws on disciplines that run from psychoanalysis, feminism, queer theory, film and media studies, and cultural theory to the empirical study of audience response.

Gay Directors, Gay Films?

Author : Emanuel Levy
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231526539
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Gay Directors, Gay Films? written by Emanuel Levy and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through intimate encounters with the life and work of five contemporary gay male directors, this book develops a framework for interpreting what it means to make a gay film or adopt a gay point of view. For most of the twentieth century, gay characters and gay themes were both underrepresented and misrepresented in mainstream cinema. Since the 1970s, however, a new generation of openly gay directors has turned the closet inside out, bringing a poignant immediacy to modern cinema and popular culture. Combining his experienced critique with in-depth interviews, Emanuel Levy draws a clear timeline of gay filmmaking over the past four decades and its particular influences and innovations. While recognizing the "queering" of American culture that resulted from these films, Levy also takes stock of the ensuing conservative backlash and its impact on cinematic art, a trend that continues alongside a growing acceptance of homosexuality. He compares the similarities and differences between the "North American" attitudes of Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, and John Waters and the "European" perspectives of Pedro Almodóvar and Terence Davies, developing a truly expansive approach to gay filmmaking and auteur cinema.

Pedro Almodovar

Author : Ernesto R. Acevedo-Munoz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838717552
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Pedro Almodovar written by Ernesto R. Acevedo-Munoz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides a detailed introduction to the essential themes, style, and aesthetics of Pedro Almodovar's films, put in the context of Spain's profound cultural transitions since 1980. With precise and close analysis, the book covers the major concerns of the most successful of all Spanish film directors and makes direct, clear connections to the logic of Almodovar's aesthetic and stylistic choices. By spanning the entirety of Pedro Almodovar's feature making career, the book emphasizes the director's sensibility to make the outrageous believable and to always give a unique spin to the issues Spanish history, culture and identity. A detailed and comprehensive approach to all of Pedro Almodovar's feature films from the outrageous 1980 'Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls on the Heap' to the sophisticated 2004 'Bad Education', this book provides more than an introduction an intimate look at the topics, style, aesthetics and cultural sensibilities of Spain's most distinguished and celebrated film director since Luis Bunuel. By focusing on a film-by-film, and often scene-by-scene analysis, this book offers a meticulous interpretation of characters, situations, allusions and cultural intersections, as well as emphasizing the meaning and weight of cultural, historical and social contexts. The book traces the evolution of Almodovar's career, from the perspective of aesthetic, narrative and stylistic concerns and places those changes in the logical context of Spain's historical trajectory from the end of Franco's dictatorship to the transition to democracy, exploring Almodovar's interest on issues of identity, sexuality, and nationalism.