Almodóvar Pedro - A companion to Pedro Almodóvar

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This edition first published 2013
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

A companion to Pedro Almodvar / edited by Marvin DLugo and Kathleen M. Vernon.
p. cm. (Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directors)
Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4051-9582-9 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Almodvar, PedroCriticism and interpretation.
I. DLugo, Marvin. II. Vernon, Kathleen M., 1951
PN1998.3.A46C585 2013
791.430233092dc23

2012033137

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Cover image: Pedro Almodvar AF archive / Alamy
Cover design by Nicki Averill Design and Illustration

Dean Allbritton is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Colby College with a Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literature from SUNY Stony Brook. His work analyzes metaphors of illness and masculinity in contemporary Spanish film as focal points for larger discourses of national and societal health. His critical interests include the fields of illness and disability studies, film theory, contemporary Spanish film, and masculinity studies. He has published articles in Studies in Hispanic Cinemas and Post Script.
Isolina Ballesteros is Associate Professor at the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature of Baruch College, CUNY. Her teaching focuses on modern peninsular studies (nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and film), comparative literature, and Spanish and European film. Her field of specialty is contemporary Spanish cultural studies and her current research reflects a dual interest in gender, ethnicity and migration to Europe, and the cultural memory of the Spanish Civil War. She is the author of two books: Escritura femenina y discurso autobiogrfico en la nueva novela espaola (1994) and Cine (Ins)urgente: textos flmicos y contextos culturales de la Espaa postfranquista (2001). She is currently working on a book called: Undesirable Otherness and Immigration Cinema in the European Union.
Josetxo Cerdn Los Arcos is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, Journalism and Advertising Studies at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili where he was coordinator of the M.A. degree program from 1998 to 2008. He is Artistic Director of Punto de Vista, the Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de Navarra. He is author of Ricardo Urgoiti. Los trabajos y los das (2007) and editor of the books Mirada, memoria y fascinacin (2001); Documental y Vanguardia (2005); Al otro lado de la ficcin (2007); and Suevia Films Cesreo Gonzlez (2005); Signal Fires: The Cinema of Jem Cohen (2010). His principal research areas are non-fiction film, Spanish cinema, and television.
Gerard Dapena is a scholar of Hispanic cinemas and visual culture. He received his Ph.D. in Art History at The Graduate Center, CUNY. His dissertation examined the interface of film and painting in post-Civil War Spanish cinema. He has published and lectured on different aspects of Spanish and Latin American film and art history and taught at New York University, Bard College, Macalester College, The New School, and The School of Visual Arts, among other institutions. Currently, he is working on a book-length study of early Francoist cinema.
Celestino Deleyto is Professor of Film and English Studies at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. He is the author of The Secret Life of Romantic Comedy (2009) and co-author, with Mara del Mar Azcona, of Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu (2010).
Marina Daz Lpez holds a doctorate in film history from the Universidad Autnoma de Madrid. She is in charge of the film and audiovisual office of the Instituto Cervantes (Madrid). She had edited two collections of essays in Latin American cinema in collaboration with Alberto Elena: