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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).
Introduction
Marvin D’Lugo and Kathleen M. Vernon
I. Bio-Filmography
1. Almodóvar’s Self-Fashioning: The Economics and Aesthetics of Deconstructive Biography
Paul Julian Smith
2. Creative Beginnings in Almodóvar’s Work
Francisco A. Zurián
3. Almodóvar and Hitchcock: A Sorcerer’s Apprenticeship
Dona Kercher
4. A Life, Imagined and Otherwise: The Limits and Uses of Autobiography in Almodóvar’s films
Alberto Mira
II. Spanish Contexts
5. El Deseo’s Itinerary: Almodóvar and the Spanish Film Industry
Marina Díaz López
6. Almodóvar and Spanish Patterns of Film Reception and Miguel Fernández
Josetxo Cerdán
7. Memory, Politics and the Post-Transition in Almodóvar’s Cinema
Juan Carlos Ibáñez
8. The Ethics of Oblivion: Personal, National, and Cultural Memories in the Films of Pedro Almodóvar
Adrián Pérez Melgosa
III. At the Limits of Gender
9. Our Rapists Ourselves: Women and the Staging of Rape in the Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar
Leora Lev
10. Paternity & Pathogens: Mourning Men and the Crises of Masculinity in Almodóvar
Dean Albritton
11. Domesticating Violence in the Films of Pedro Almodóvar
Noelia Saenz
12. La piel que habito: A Story of Imposed Gender and the Struggle for Identity
Francisco A. Zurián
IV. Re-readings
13. Reenvoicements and Reverberations in Almodóvar’s Macro-Melodrama
Marsha Kinder
14. The Flower of his Secret: Carne trémula and the Mise en scene of Desire
Celestino Deleyto
15. Scratching the Past on the “Surface” of the“Skin:” Embodied Inter-subjectivity, Prosthetic Memory, and Witnessing in Almodóvar's La mala Educación
Julián Daniel and Gutiérrez-Albila
16. Almodóvar’s Stolen Images
Javier Herrera
V. Global Almodóvar
17. Women on the Verge of Nervous Breakdown: From Madrid (1988) to New York (2010)
Isolina Ballesteros
18. Almodóvar’s Global Musical Marketplace
Kathleen M. Vernon
19. Almodóvar and Latin America: The Making of a Transnational Aesthetic in Volver
Marvin D’Lugo
20. Is there a French Almodóvar?
Jean-Claude Seguin
21. Almodóvar in Asia: Hong Kong, Taiwan and LGBT Film Culture
EK Tan
VI. Art and Commerce
22. To the Health of the Author: Art Direction in Los abrazos rotos
John D. Sanderson
23. Making Spain Fashionable
Gerard Dapena
24. Almodóvar, Cyberfandom and Participatory Culture
Vicente Rodríguez-Ortega
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