The cinema of Pedro Almodovar
- Submitting institution
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Sheffield Hallam University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 3825
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- ISBN
- 9780719074424
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This 338pp. monograph offers a comprehensive film-by-film analysis of the cinema of Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, including his 21 feature films. Drawing on scholarship in English and Spanish and archive research in the Madrid film archive (Filmoteca) and National Library, it shows how Almodóvar's films draw on various national cinemas and film genres, including Spanish cinema of the Dictatorship, European art cinema, Hollywood melodrama and film noir. It argues that Almodóvar's work is a form of social critique, his films engaging with stereotypes about traditional and contemporary Spain to address Spain's traumatic historical past and how it informs the present.
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- Non-English
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