Free Download Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla, "Aesthetics, Ethics and Trauma in the Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar"
English | ISBN: 1474400108 | 2017 | 232 pages | PDF | 24 MB
One of Spain's most celebrated directors, Pedro Almodóvar 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 Almodóvar'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 Almodóvar's films from the 1990s and 2000s, including