A Companion to Pedro Almódovar

Notes on Contributors viii
 
Acknowledgments xv
 
Introduction: The Skin He Lives In 1
Marvin D'Lugo and Kathleen M. Vernon
 
Part I Bio-Filmography 19
 
1 Almodóvar's Self-Fashioning: The Economics and Aesthetics of Deconstructive Autobiography 21
Paul Julian Smith
 
2 Creative Beginnings in Almodóvar's Work 39
Francisco A. Zurian
 
3 Almodóvar and Hitchcock: A Sorcerer's Apprenticeship 59
Dona Kercher
 
4 A Life, Imagined and Otherwise: The Limits and Uses of Autobiography in Almodóvar's Films 88
Alberto Mira
 
Part II Spanish Contexts 105
 
5 El Deseo's "Itinerary": Almodóvar and the Spanish Film Industry 107
Marina Díaz López
 
6 Almodóvar and Spanish Patterns of Film Reception 129
Josetxo Cerdán and Miguel Fernández Labayen
 
7 Memory, Politics, and the Post-Transition in Almodóvar's Cinema 153
Juan Carlos Ibáñez
 
8 The Ethics of Oblivion: Personal, National, and Cultural Memories in the Films of Pedro Almodóvar 176
Adrián Pérez Melgosa
 
Part III At the Limits of Gender 201
 
9 Our Rapists, Ourselves: Women and the Staging of Rape in the Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar 203
Leora Lev
 
10 Paternity and Pathogens: Mourning Men and the Crises of Masculinity in Todo Sobre Mi Madre and Hable Con Ella 225
Dean Allbritton
 
11 Domesticating Violence in the Films of Pedro Almodóvar 244
Noelia Saenz
 
12 La piel que habito: A Story of Imposed Gender and the Struggle for Identity 262
Francisco A. Zurian
 
Part IV Re-readings 279
 
13 Re-envoicements and Reverberations in Almodóvar's Macro-Melodrama 281
Marsha Kinder
 
14 The Flower of His Secret: Carne trémula and the Mise en Scène of Desire 304
Celestino Deleyto
 
15 Scratching the Past on the Surface of the Skin: Embodied Intersubjectivity, Prosthetic Memory, and Witnessing in Almodóvar's La mala educación 322
Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla
 
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Marvin D'Lugo is Professor of Spanish and Adjunct Professor of Screen Studies at Clark University, Massachusetts where he teaches courses on Spanish and Latin-American cinema. He has published a number of books including Pedro Almodóvar (2006) in the University of Illinois Press' Contemporary Film Directors series.
 
Kathleen M. Vernon is Associate Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is author and editor of numerous studies on Spanish cinema and culture including Post-Franco, Postmodern: The Films of Pedro Almodóvar (1995).

"Well researched and clearly organized, the volume boasts a helpful scholarly apparatus. Almodovar scholars will want to keep this companion handy, and all advanced students of film will appreciate it. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty." ( Choice , 1 December 2013)