{"product_id":"the-passion-of-pedro-almodvar-james-miller-9780231220040","title":"The Passion of Pedro Almod?var: A Self-Portrait in Seven Films","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe films of Pedro Almod?var teem with characters who at once are and are not alter egos of the director. In film after film, the Spanish auteur mines his past for alternative selves, telling and retelling formative stories from his own life, plumbing the depths of his memory while exploring other lives he might have led. What can Almod?var's work tell us about the quest for self-knowledge--for understanding who we are and who we might yet become? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJames Miller considers seven of Almod?var's most personal films, arguing that together they offer a revealing self-portrait of the director and his search for meaning. Beginning with Volver, Miller traces Almod?var's signature obsessions backward and forward through the director's filmography. Deeply shaped by the counterculture of the 1960s--which arrived belatedly in Franco's Spain--Almod?var has long been fascinated by the exhilarating power and devastating limitations of artistic and sexual transgression. In rich readings, Miller shows how Almod?var tests the blurry line between fiction and reality, the bounds of individual freedom, and the durability of a sense of self. In so doing, the director turns cinema into a form of philosophical investigation and self-exploration. A keenly observed, masterfully written portrait of one of world cinema's greatest creative forces, \u003ci\u003eThe Passion of Pedro Almod?var\u003c\/i\u003e finds in film new ways to tell the story of a life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Miller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231220049\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231220040\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/29\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"James Miller","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46465841823999,"sku":"9780231220040","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_253291bf-6e7a-49c2-9233-67ae4d99e634.jpg?v=1736347439","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-passion-of-pedro-almodvar-james-miller-9780231220040","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}