A Companion to Pedro Almodóvar.
Marvin. D'Lugo
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (587 pages)
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Skin He Lives In -- A Spotlight on the Self-Conscious Auteur -- The Companion to Pedro Almodóvar -- Notes -- References -- Part I Bio-Filmography -- Chapter 1 Almodóvar's Self-Fashioning: The Economics and Aesthetics of Deconstructive Autobiography -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 Creative Beginnings in Almodóvar's Work1 -- Searching for His Own Voice -- The Short Stories in Relatos -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Almodóvar and Hitchcock: A Sorcerer's Apprenticeship -- Introduction: Self-Education via Hitchcock -- Almodóvar's Guilt Complex from Spellbound to Laberinto de pasiones -- Casting and Close-ups in Entre tinieblas and Stage Fright -- The Domestic Crime Scene Enlivened by Wallpaper: "Lamb to the Slaughter" and ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto! -- Looking through Objects and Almodóvar's "MacGuffin": From Dial M for Murder, The 39 Steps, Strangers on a Train, and Rear Window to Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4 A Life, Imagined and Otherwise: The Limits and Uses of Autobiography in Almodóvar's Films -- Inventing the Self: Autobiography between Fact and Fantasy -- A Portrait of the Young Gay Man as a Star-to-be: Personal Experience into Cultural Mythologies -- Notes -- References -- Part II Spanish Contexts -- Chapter 5 El Deseo's "Itinerary": Almodóvar and the Spanish Film Industry -- Marks of Identity -- Family Resemblance -- The Back Story: Almodóvar -- The Course of Things: El Deseo's Other Films -- Other Stories: Latin American Co-productions -- Home Cinema -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6 Almodóvar and Spanish Patterns of Film Reception -- La ley del deseo -- Kika -- Hable con ella -- Conclusions -- Notes.. - Chapter 14 The Flower of His Secret Carne trémula and the Mise en Scène of Desire -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 15 Scratching the Past on the Surface of the Skin Embodied Intersubjectivity, Prosthetic Memory, and Witnessing in Almodóvar's La mala educación -- Introduction -- Torn Surfaces, Shattered Subjectivities -- The Skin of the Dress -- Cinema as an Embodied Witnessing Practice -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 16 Almodóvar's Stolen Images -- Cinematic Quotation as Theft -- Visual Metaphors as Poaching -- Plagiarism, Pastiche, and "Transvestism" -- The Search for Style -- Textual Transvestism -- Los abrazos rotos, or the Synthesis of Almodovarian Transvestism and Pastiche -- Notes -- References -- Part V Global Almodóvar -- Chapter 17 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: From Madrid (1988) to New York (2010) -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 18 Almodóvar's Global Musical Marketplace -- All About World Music -- Caetano Veloso: Hearts, Minds, and Market Share -- Chavela Vargas: Icon and Muse -- Buika: Synthesis and Synergies -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 19 Almodóvar and Latin America: The Making of a Transnational Aesthetic in Volver -- Mapping Cultural Affinities -- Tango and Communal Memory -- Constructing a New Geocultural Imaginary -- An Auditory Imaginary -- Co-Producing a Cinematic Latin America -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 20 Is there a French Almodóvar? -- Distribution and Reception of Almodóvar's Films in France -- From the Untranslatable to the Genuine -- Towards Translatability: The Global -- Just Another filmmaker (or almost) -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 21 Almodóvar in Asia: Hong Kong, Taiwan, and LGBT Film Culture -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part VII Art and Commerce -- Chapter 22 To the Health of the Author: Art Direction in Los abrazos rotos.. - Color -- Set Design -- Atrezzo -- Meta-narrative -- Hospitals -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 23 Making Spain Fashionable Fashion and Design in Pedro Almodóvar's Cinema -- A History of Spanish Fashion and State Policy -- Almodóvar and Costume Design in Film -- Made in Spain -- Made in Europe -- La flor de mi secreto -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 24 Almodóvar, Cyberfandom, and Participatory Culture -- Internet Users, Piracy, and the Re-regulation of the Web -- The "Sinde Law": from de la Iglesia to Almodóvar -- From La Edad de Oro to Enrique Goded: The Auteur-Fan Interface -- "Almodóvar" as El Deseo S.A., Fan-made Artifacts and the Question of Ownership -- From "Almodovarlandia" to Facebook: Social Networking and the Demise of the Cinephilic Object? -- Conclusion: Almodóvar and the Future of Participatory Culture -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- EULA.. - References -- Chapter 7 Memory, Politics, and the Post-Transition in Almodóvar's Cinema -- From Novela Rosa to Film Noir: The Breakdown of the Transitional Paradigm -- Carne trémula: The Irruption of History -- Memory and the Redemption of Theater in Todo sobre mi madre -- Reinterpreting the Past: La mala educación -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8 The Ethics of Oblivion: Personal, National, and Cultural Memories in the Films of Pedro Almodóvar -- Visual Palimpsests and Narrative Arrhythmias -- Rhopography: Making the Apparently Trivial into a Movie Star -- The Ethics of Makeup -- Notes -- References -- Part III At the Limits of Gender -- Chapter 9 Our Rapists, Ourselves: Women and the Staging of Rape in the Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar -- Specularizing Visions of Excess: Of Human Bondage, Petits Mortes, Parts Maudites, and Rape -- Masters of Delusion -- Immaterial Girls: Of Graves and Private Places -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 10 Paternity and Pathogens Mourning Men and the Crises of Masculinity in Todo Sobre Mi Madre and Hable Con Ella -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 11 Domesticating Violence in the Films of Pedro Almodóvar -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 12 La piel que habito A Story of Imposed Gender and the Struggle for Identity1: -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Part IV Re-readings -- Chapter 13 Re-envoicements and Reverberations in Almodóvar's Macro-Melodrama -- Mastering Sound: Re-envoicing the Movida and Macro-Melodrama -- Musical Substitutions and Intertexts in Laberinto de pasiones -- Dubbing as Re-envoicement in Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios -- The Maternal Voice in La flor de mi secreto -- Macro-Melodrama in Hable con ella and Todo sobre mi madre -- Retro-seriality in Los abrazos rotos: Reverberations in the Age of Audio Culture -- Note -- References.. - Edited by leading authorities on the subject, and bringing together a stellar cast of contributors, this detailed appraisal of Pedro Almodóvar's unique cinematic art examines the themes, style, and aesthetics of his oeuvre and locates it in the context of the profound cultural transformations in Spain since the 1970s. Brings together a stellar cast of contributors from across the globe including recognized and established specialists as well as talented younger scholars Features contributions by Spanish film historians, where studies of Almodóvar's work have been underrepresented in the academic literature Deploys new approaches to the analysis of film authorship by exploring contextual issues such as Almodóvar's transnational appeal and the political dimensions of his works Traces the director's fruitful collaborations in the areas of art and design, fashion and music.
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