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OverviewPedro Almodovar . winner of a BAFTA for Best Director, 2000 All About My Mother . Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film, 2000 The huge international success of his latest feature, All About My Mother, has finally granted Pedro Almodovar the recognition he deserves, as the most artistically ambitious and commercially consistent film-maker in Europe. Frequently comic, often deadly serious, always visually glorious, his films range from the screwball comedy Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and the SM melodrama Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! to the almost classically austere Live Flesh. And, while questions of gender, nationality and sexuality have always been Almodovar's concern, new subjects have been addressed in his more recent work: the corrosive effects of a deregulated Spanish media, the transition from dictatorship to democracy and, in All About My Mother, uncompromising explorations of the process of mourning. This new edition includes four new chapters, among which is a rare interview with Almodovar himself, a new preface and additional illustrations. Still the only study of its kind in English, it vigorously confirms its original argument, that beneath Almodovar's genius for comedy and visual pleasure lies a film-maker whose work deserves to be taken with the utmost seriousness. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Paul Julian Smith , James Dunkerley , John KingPublisher: Verso Books Imprint: Verso Books Edition: 2nd edition Dimensions: Width: 19.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.10cm Weight: 0.649kg ISBN: 9781859843048ISBN 10: 1859843042 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 17 November 2000 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Replaced By: 9781781681770 Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Awaiting stock Table of ContentsReviewsFinely observed, compelling. -- Publishers Weekly Finely observed, compelling. --Publishers Weekly Author InformationPaul Julian Smith is a professor at the City University of New York. His previous books include Vision Machines: Cinema, Literature and Sexuality in Spain and Cuba, 1983-1993 and The Moderns: Time, Space and Subjectivity in Contemporary Spanish Culture. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |