Understanding Almodovar's increasing complexity through an investigation of his central themes and the Spanish film tradition
Acknowledgments ix
PEDRO ALMÓDOVAR AND HIS CINEMA 1
Low-Level Melodrama 1
Pepi, Luci, Bom, and Other Friends of Pedro 16
Migration and Melodrama 29
Thrillers 45
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown59
Transnational Repositioning after Women on the Verge 67
The Flower of My Secret 85
Live Flesh 93
All about My Mother 99
Talk to Her and Bad Education 105
INTERVIEW WITH PEDRO ALMODÓVAR 131
SELF-INTERVIEW 145
Filmography 153
Bibliography 159
Index 165
Marvin D'Lugo is a professor of Spanish and adjunct professor of screen studies at Clark University. He is the author of The Films of Carlos Saura: The Practice of Seeing, and Guide to Cinema in Spain and coeditor of A Companion to Pedro Almodóvar.
"For fans and film students alike, D'Lugo's contribution to the
Contemporary Film Directors series celebrates the director's camp
aesthetic and artistic sensibilities with insight and
elan."--Publishers Weekly
"[D'Lugo] significantly extends the critical discourse on
Almodovar's work by focusing on the cluster of ambiguities and
polarities that sustain the most controversial aspects of
Almodovar's authorship."--Screening The Past
"Providing a thoroughly researched synthesis of the many years of
study of Almodovar's work by other scholars in both Spanish and
English, D'Lugo nevertheless makes the narrative his own through
contrasting Almodovar's early films to the films that inspired the
director and the ones he seemed to revile and react to, and by
emphasizing the auteur's own role in the creation of his
personality as a celebrity-author ... With such a thorough and
well-written book as D'Lugo's, a full appreciation of ... the
genius of its creator has become a lot easier and more
enjoyable."--European-films.net
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