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7%OFFMarvin D´lugo - Pedro Almodovar - 9780252073618 - V9780252073618
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Pedro Almodovar

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Description for Pedro Almodovar Paperback. Follows Pedro Almodovar's career chronologically as he moves from amateur to international celebrity, and understands the films' complexity in terms of the director's central themes and the Spanish film tradition from which he comes. This work is of interest to new film students and specialists alike. Series: Contemporary Film Directors. Num Pages: 192 pages, 7 photographs. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 210 x 13. Weight in Grams: 266.
Perhaps the best-known Spanish filmmaker to international audiences, Pedro Almodóvar 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 Almodóvar'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 Almodóvar's use of melodrama and Hollywood genre film, his ... Read more


An exciting consideration of an arthouse giant, Pedro Almodóvar mixes original interpretations into an analysis sure to reward film students and specialists alike.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
Contemporary Film Directors
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252073618
SKU
V9780252073618
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About Marvin D´lugo
Marvin D'Lugo is a professor of Spanish and adjunct professor of screen studies at Clark University. He is the author of The Films of Carlos Saura: The Practice of Seeing, and Guide to Cinema in Spain and coeditor of A Companion to Pedro Almodóvar.

Reviews for Pedro Almodovar
"For fans and film students alike, D'Lugo's contribution to the Contemporary Film Directors series celebrates the director's camp aesthetic and artistic sensibilities with insight and elan."
Publishers Weekly    "[D'Lugo] significantly extends the critical discourse on Almodovar's work by focusing on the cluster of ambiguities and polarities that sustain the most controversial aspects of Almodovar's authorship."
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Goodreads reviews for Pedro Almodovar


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