All about AlmodoÌvar : a passion for cinema /
Brad Epps and Despina Kakoudaki, editors.
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
- 496 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes filmography.
Introduction. Approaching AlmodoÌvar: thirty years of reinvention / Brad Epps and Despina Kakoudaki -- Forms and figures. AlmodoÌvar on television: industry and thematics / Paul Julian Smith -- Queer sound: musical otherness in three films by Pedro AlmodoÌvar / Kathleen M. Vernon -- Performing identities in the cinema of Pedro AlmodoÌvar / Isolina Ballesteros -- Acts of violence in AlmodoÌvar / Peter William Evans -- Heart of farce: AlmodoÌvar's comic complexities / Andy Medhurst -- Melodrama and its discontents. Mimesis and diegesis: AlmodoÌvar and the limits of melodrama / Mark Allinson -- Melancholy melodrama: Almodovarian grief and lost homosexual attachments / Linda Williams -- Intimate strangers: melodrama and coincidence in Talk to her / Despina Kakoudaki -- The limits of representation. AlmodoÌvar's girls / Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit -- All about the brothers: retroseriality in AlmodoÌvar's cinema / Marsha Kinder -- Blind shots and backward glances: Reviewing Matador and Labyrinth of passion / Brad Epps -- Missing a beat: syncopated rhythms and subterranean subjects in the spectral economy of Volver / Steven Marsh -- Postnostalgia in Bad education: written on the body of Sara Montiel / Marvin D'Lugo -- The auteur in context. Inside AlmodoÌvar / Ignacio Oliva -- Pepi, Patty, and beyond: cinema and literature in AlmodoÌvar / Francisco A. ZuriaÌn -- Bad education: fictional autobiography and meta-film noir / ViÌctor Fuentes -- Coda. Volver: a filmmaker's diary / Pedro AlmodoÌvar.