{"product_id":"all-about-almodzevar-brad-epps-9780816649617","title":"All about Almodóvar: A Passion for Cinema","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e New critical perspectives on the filmmaker behind \u003ci\u003eAll About My Mother, Talk to Her, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVolver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e One of world cinema's most exciting filmmakers, Pedro Almodóvar has been delighting, provoking, arousing, shocking, and--above all--entertaining audiences around the globe since he first burst on the international film scene in the early 1980s. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAll about Almodóvar\u003c\/i\u003e offers new perspectives on the filmmaker's artistic vision and cinematic preoccupations, influences, and techniques. Through overviews of his oeuvre and in-depth analyses of specific films, the essays here explore a diverse range of subjects: Almodóvar's nuanced use of television and music in his films; his reworkings of traditional film genres such as comedy, horror, and film noir; his penchant for melodrama and its relationship to melancholy, violence, and coincidence; his intricate questioning of sexual and national identities; and his increasingly sophisticated inquiries into visuality and its limits. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eClosing with Almodóvar's own diary account of the making of \u003ci\u003eVolver\u003c\/i\u003e and featuring never-before-seen photographs from El Deseo production studio, \u003ci\u003eAll about Almodóvar\u003c\/i\u003e both reflects and illuminates its subject's dazzling eclecticism.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContributors: Mark Allinson, U of Leicester; Pedro Almodóvar; Isolina Ballesteros, Baruch College; Leo Bersani, UC Berkeley; Marvin D'Lugo, Clark U; Ulysse Dutoit, UC Berkeley; Peter William Evans, Queen Mary U of London; Víctor Fuentes, UC Santa Barbara; Marsha Kinder, USC; Steven Marsh, U of Illinois, Chicago; Andy Medhurst, U of Sussex; Ignacio Olivia, Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca; Paul Julian Smith, U of Cambridge; Kathleen M. Vernon, SUNY Stony Brook; Linda Williams, UC Berkeley; Francisco A. Zurián, U Carlos III, Madrid.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brad Epps\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816649618\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816649617\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/21\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 488\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/24\/2009 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2009 pg. 267","brand":"Brad Epps","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47135253168383,"sku":"9780816649617","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4c2bcc9f-9b95-40a8-90a7-121c6ef297ba.jpg?v=1755009591","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/all-about-almodzevar-brad-epps-9780816649617","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}