The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar - (Spanish and Latin-American Filmmakers) by Ana María Sanchez-Arce (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A comprehensive, historically informed study of the art and politics of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, showing how Almodóvar's films draw on various national cinemas and film genres, including Spanish cinema of the dictatorship, European art cinema, Hollywood melodrama and film noir.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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 <em>film noir</em>. 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>This book offers a comprehensive, film-by-film analysis of the cinema of Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, from early transgressive comedies of the 1980s like <i>Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón </i>and <i>Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios</i>, to award-winning dramas like <i>Todo sobre mi madre</i>, <i>Hable con ella</i>, and <i>Dolor y gloria</i>. It shows how Almodóvar's films draw on various national cinemas and film genres, including Spanish cinema of the dictatorship, European art cinema, Hollywood melodrama and <i>film noir</i>. The book argues that the political nature of Almodóvar's work has been obscured by his alignment with the allegedly apolitical Spanish cultural movement known as <i>la movida</i>, but is in fact a form of social critique disguised as frivolity. Almodóvar's films consistently engage with and challenge stereotypes about traditional and contemporary Spain, addressing the country's traumatic past and how it continues to inform the present. Focusing in particular on memory work, the book explains how Almodóvar uses poetic techniques to explore personal and collective trauma. He is not, as is commonly thought, a postmodern filmmaker, but a metamodern one who uses postmodernist techniques with an ethical purpose. Drawing on scholarship in both English and Spanish, <i>The cinema of Pedro Almodóvar </i>will be of interest to students and scholars of film studies and Hispanic studies, as well as general cinema enthusiasts with a passion for the films of Spain's greatest living director.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Ana María Sánchez-Arce is Reader in English at Sheffield Hallam University
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