All about Almodóvar
Subtitle: a passion for cinema
By: Brad Epps and Despina Kakoudaki, editors.
Contributors: Epps, Bradley S.; Kakoudaki, Despina.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press; Univ Of Minnesota Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780816649600; 9780816649617
Subjects: Almodóvar, Pedro -- Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Approaching Almodóvar: thirty years of reinvention / Brad Epps and Despina Kakoudaki; title: Forms and figures. Almodóvar on television: industry and thematics / Paul Julian Smith; title: Queer sound: musical otherness in three films by Pedro Almodóvar / Kathleen M. Vernon; title: Performing identities in the cinema of Pedro Almodóvar / Isolina Ballesteros; title: Acts of violence in Almodóvar / Peter William Evans; title: Heart of farce: Almodóvar's comic complexities / Andy Medhurst; title: Melodrama and its discontents. Mimesis and diegesis: Almodóvar and the limits of melodrama / Mark Allinson; title: Melancholy melodrama: Almodovarian grief and lost homosexual attachments / Linda Williams; title: Intimate strangers: melodrama and coincidence in Talk to her / Despina Kakoudaki; title: The limits of representation. Almodóvar's girls / Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit; title: All about the brothers: retroseriality in Almodóvar's cinema / Marsha Kinder; title: Blind shots and backward glances: Reviewing Matador and Labyrinth of passion / Brad Epps; title: Missing a beat: syncopated rhythms and subterranean subjects in the spectral economy of Volver / Steven Marsh; title: Postnostalgia in Bad education: written on the body of Sara Montiel / Marvin D'Lugo; title: The auteur in context. Inside Almodóvar / Ignacio Oliva; title: Pepi, Patty, and beyond: cinema and literature in Almodóvar / Francisco A. Zurián; title: Bad education: fictional autobiography and meta-film noir / Víctor Fuentes; title: Coda. Volver: a filmmaker's diary / Pedro Almodóvar.