The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar

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by Ana María Sanchez-Arce

Type: Studies
Subject: Director > Pedro Almodóvar
Keywords: Pedro Almodóvar
Publishing date: 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Collection: Spanish and Latin-American Filmmakers
1st publishing: 2020
Language: English

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Physical desc.

Paperback • 350 pages
5 ½ x 8 ½ inches (14 x 21.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-5261-6712-5

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Book Presentation:
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 film noir. 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.

About the Author:
Ana María Sánchez-Arce is Reader in English at Sheffield Hallam University

Press Reviews:
'Sánchez-Arce adds significantly to understanding of Almodóvar with these insightful close readings of his features―readings that employ a methodology blending feminism and formalism while situating the films in appropriate sociopolitical and historical contexts.'
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‘The cinema of Pedro Almodóvar successfully manages the difficult task of finding new things to say about an auteur who has been widely written about and studied.’
Dolores Tierney, Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas

"The cinema of Pedro Almodovar" is an intelligent, thoroughly researched study of all the films up to "Dolor y Gloria" (Pain and Glory, 2019), showing them to be nuanced and political reflections on a reckoning with Franco.' The Prisma

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