How the films of Pedro Almodovar draw upon and influence Spanish society
Subtitle: bilingual essays on his cinema
By: edited by Maria R. Matz and Carole Salmon ; with a preface by Brad Epps
Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lewiston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780773429222
Subjects: In motion pictures; Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes filmography.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In English and Spanish.
Table of contents: title: Spain's true colors: the Almodovar phenomenon / Maria R. Matz and Carole Salmon; title: Facing Almodovar's vision of Spanish contemporary society: women, men and everyone in between / Maria R. Matz and Carole Salmon; title: Masculinities-Maskulinities, or why does Almodovar outcast men? / Jean Xavier Brager; title: The color of authorship: Almodovar's Labyrinth of red / Michael Rennett; title: Allegories of authenticity: production design in Pedro Almodovar's Atame! and Todo sobre mi madre / Margret Nisch; title: El cine dentro del cine en la obra de Pedro Almodóvar: pasion cinefila y tradicion barroca / Javier Herrera; title: Hacer cine como si Franco no hubiera existido / Antonio Francisco Pedros-Gascon; title: Mujeres al rescate: imaginacion creadora como atributo femenino en el cine de Pedro Almodóvar / Hilda Chacon; title: Escritoras al borde de un ataque de genero(s): feminidad literaria y mujeres escritoras en el cine de Pedro Almodóvar / Juan Senis Fernandez; title: Made in Spain: el fenomeno Almodóvar / Maria R. Matz.