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OverviewOne of Spain's most celebrated directors, Pedro Almodóvar has won international recognition for his dark comedy-dramas like Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, All About My Mother and Volver. Reconceptualising Almodóvar's films as theoretical and political resources, this innovative book examines a neglected aspect of his cinema: its engagement with the traumatic past, with subjective and collective memory, and with the ethical and political meanings that result from this engagement. With close readings of Almodóvar's films from the 1990s and 2000s, including Bad Education and The Skin I Live In, Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla explores how Almodóvar's cinema mourns and witnesses the traces of trauma, drawing on theoretical approaches from trauma studies, psychoanalysis, philosophy, film studies and visual studies to suggest that his work proposes an ethical model based on our compassionate relations to others, and envisions a world co-inhabited by plurality and difference. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Julian Daniel Gutierrez-AlbillaPublisher: Edinburgh University Press Imprint: Edinburgh University Press Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 5.10cm , Length: 21.60cm ISBN: 9781474400107ISBN 10: 1474400108 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 31 July 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsBrilliant and original work by one of the most intellectually and ethically committed scholars working on Spanish-language film. Gutiérrez-Albilla engages lucidly with, and generously elucidates Derrida, Lévinas, Deleuze and Ettinger to raise questions about the trace of trauma associated with the Franco Regime in recent films by Almodóvar.--Professor Jo Evans. UCL Brilliant and original work by one of the most intellectually and ethically committed scholars working on Spanish-language film. Guti�rrez-Albilla engages lucidly with, and generously elucidates Derrida, L�vinas, Deleuze and Ettinger to raise questions about the trace of trauma associated with the Franco Regime in recent films by Almod�var.--Professor Jo Evans. UCL Author InformationJulian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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