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“One of world cinema's most exciting filmmakers, Pedro Almodóvar has been delighting, provoking, arousing, shocking, and—above all—entertaining audiences around the globe since he first burst onto the international film scene in the early 1980s.
All about Almodóvar offers new perspectives on the filmmaker's artistic vision and cinematic preoccupations, influences, and techniques. Through overviews of the filmmaker's oeuvre and in-depth analyzes of specific films, the essays here explore a diverse range of subjects: Almodóvar's nuanced use of television and music in his films by him; his reworkings of traditional film genres such as comedy, horror, and film noir; his penchant for melodrama and its relationship to melancholy, violence, and coincidence; his intricate questioning of sexual and national identities; and his increasingly sophisticated inquiries into visuality and its limits. “
Taken from LAIE
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http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000264/
http://www.publiarq.com/libros/all-about-almodovar-a-passion-for-cinema/978-0-8166-4961-7/
The recommended titles are in the Library of the International Institute. If you are interested in reading this recommendation, you can check its availability at catalog of the library
All about Almodóvar: a passion for cinema / Brad Epps and Despina Kakoudaki editors. — Minneapolis: University of Minnesota press, 2009. — 496 p. ; 23cm.
ISBN 978-0-8166-4961-7
1. Almodóvar, Pedro (1949-) – Criticism and interpretation. I.Epps, Brad. II. Kakoudaki, Despina.
PN 1998.3 .A46 A4 2009
R. 98971
