Aesthetics, Ethics and Trauma in the Cinema of Pedro Almodovar
Seiten
2017
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-0010-7 (ISBN)
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-0010-7 (ISBN)
Reconceptualising Almodovar 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.
One of Spain's most celebrated directors, Pedro Almodvar 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 Almodvar'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 Almodvar's films from the 1990s and 2000s, including Bad Education and The Skin I Live In, Julin Daniel Gutirrez-Albilla explores how Almodvar'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.
One of Spain's most celebrated directors, Pedro Almodvar 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 Almodvar'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 Almodvar's films from the 1990s and 2000s, including Bad Education and The Skin I Live In, Julin Daniel Gutirrez-Albilla explores how Almodvar'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.
Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 28.09.2017 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-0010-8 / 1474400108 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-0010-7 / 9781474400107 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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