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Aesthetics, Ethics and Trauma in the Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar
Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla
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Hardback. BIC Classification: APFA; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
One of Spain's most celebrated directors, Pedro Almodvar has won international recognition for his dark comedy-dramas like Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, All About My Mother and Volver. Reconceptualising Almodvar's films as theoretical and political resources, this innovative book examines a neglected aspect of his cinema: its engagement with the traumatic past, with subjective and collective memory, and with the ethical and political meanings that result from this engagement. With close readings of Almodvar's films from the 1990s and 2000s, including Bad Education and The Skin I Live In, Julin Daniel Gutirrez-Albilla explores how Almodvar's cinema mourns ... Read more
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Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474400107
SKU
V9781474400107
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About Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla
Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California.
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