Post-Franco, Postmodern: The Films of Pedro Almodovar

by Barbara Morris and Kathleen M. Vernon

The films of Pedro Almodovar have demonstrated great crossover appeal in their ability to attract both mainstream and marginal audiences and to command critical as well as commercial success. The contributors to this anthology of critical essays seek, through close readings of the director's 10 feature films, to analyze the multiple contexts of Almodovar's phenomenal international success. This volume offers a corrective to the glib approaches that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313292450
• ISBN13: 9780313292453
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"