Name: Post-Franco, Postmodern: The Films of Pedro Almodovar (Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture)
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Author: Barbara Morris; Kathleen Vernon
ISBN: 9780313292453

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Post-Franco, Postmodern: The Films of Pedro Almodovar (Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture)

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Physical Book

Publisher

Praeger

Author

Barbara Morris; Kathleen Vernon

Year

1995

Language

English

Pages

230

Format

Hardcover

Weight

ISBN

0313292450

ISBN13

9780313292453

Synopsis "Post-Franco, Postmodern: The Films of Pedro Almodovar (Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture) "

The films of Pedro Almodovar have demonstrated great crossover appeal in their ability to attract both mainstream and marginal audiences and to command critical as well as commercial success. The contributors to this anthology of critical essays seek, through close readings of the director's 10 feature films, to analyze the multiple contexts of Almodovar's phenomenal international success. This volume offers a corrective to the glib approaches that have dominated previous discussions of Almodovar's films, which have treated them, on the one hand, as simply the latest contribution to the travel poster image of passionate, romantic Spain, or, on the other, as historical joyrides through the global pop culture scene. As the first comprehensive study of Almodovar's cinema to be published in North America, the book is also noteworthy for the range of critical and theoretical methodologies that the contributors bring to the study of his works. Drawing upon disciplines that run from psychoanalysis, feminism, queer theory, film and media studies, and cultural theory to the empirical study of audience response, the authors nevertheless share a concern to illuminate the specifically Spanish context of the director's films. While this volume serves the important function of introducing American audiences to post-Franco Spanish culture, it also pursues the complementary goal of projecting contemporary Spain into the critical debate on the forms and functioning of postmodern culture and society.

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