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Pedro AlmodÃ³var

By (author) Marvin D'Lugo

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Perhaps the best-known Spanish filmmaker to international audiences, Pedro AlmodÃ³var gained the widespread attention of English-speaking critics and fans with the Oscar-nominated Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and the celebrated dark comedy Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!. Marvin D'Lugo offers a concise, informed, and insightful commentary on a preeminent force in modern cinema. D'Lugo follows AlmodÃ³var's career chronologically, tracing the director's works and their increasing complexity in terms of theme and the Spanish film tradition. Drawing on a wide range of critical sources, D'Lugo explores AlmodÃ³var's use of melodrama and Hollywood genre film, his self-invention as a filmmaker, and his on-screen sexual politics. D'Lugo also discusses what he calls ""geocultural positioning,"" that is, AlmodÃ³var's paradoxical ability to use his marginal positionsâ€”in terms of his class, geographical origin, and identityâ€”to develop an expressive language that is emotionally recognizable by audiences worldwide. Two fascinating interviews with the director round out the volume. An exciting consideration of an arthouse giant, Pedro AlmodÃ³var mixes original interpretations into an analysis sure to reward film students and specialists alike.

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