This book offers a comprehensive film-by-film analysis of Spain's most famous living director, Pedro Almodóvar. It shows how Almodóvar's films draw on various national cinemas and genres, including Spanish cinema of the dictatorship, European art cinema, Hollywood melodrama and film noir. It also argues that Almodóvar's work is a form of social critique, his films consistently engaging with and challenging stereotypes about traditional and contemporary Spain in order to address Spain's traumatic historical past and how it continues to inform the present. Drawing on scholarship in both English and Spanish, the book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of film studies and Hispanic studies, scholars of contemporary cinema and general readers with a passion for the films of Pedro Almodóvar.
| ISBN: | 9781526167125 |
| Publication date: | 13th December 2022 |
| Author: | Ana María SánchezArce |
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 350 pages |
| Series: | Spanish and Latin American Filmmakers |
| Genres: |
Films, cinema Biography: arts and entertainment |
This book offers a comprehensive film-by-film analysis of Spain's most famous living director, Pedro Almodóvar. It shows how Almodóvar's films draw on various national cinemas and genres, including Spanish cinema of the dictatorship, European art cinema, Hollywood melodrama and film noir. It also argues that Almodóvar's work is a form of social critique, his films consistently engaging with and challenging stereotypes about traditional and contemporary Spain in order to address Spain's traumatic historical past and how it continues to inform the present. Drawing on scholarship in both English and Spanish, the book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of film studies and Hispanic studies, scholars of contemporary cinema and general readers with a passion for the films of Pedro Almodóvar.
The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar features in the following genres: Films, cinema, Biography: arts and entertainment
The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar was written by Ana María SánchezArce and published by Manchester University Press
The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar has 350 pages
Yes it is part of Spanish and Latin American Filmmakers series
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