The Cinema of Pedro AlmodóVar

Ana María Sanchez-Arce

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Manchester Univ. Press
03 January 2023

Film, TV & Radio; Films, movies & cinema; Individual film directors, film-makers

Series: Spanish and Latin-American Filmmakers

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.

By: Ana María Sanchez-Arce
Imprint: Manchester Univ. Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9781526167125
ISBN 10: 1526167123
Series: Spanish and Latin-American Filmmakers
Pages: 350
Publication Date: 03 January 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ana Maria Sanchez-Arce is Reader in English at Sheffield Hallam University -- .

Reviews for The Cinema of Pedro AlmodóVar

'Sanchez-Arce adds significantly to understanding of Almodovar 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.' CHOICE 'The cinema of Pedro Almodovar 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 -- .