Aesthetics, Ethics and Trauma in the Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar

ISBN-13: 9781474431675 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 232 str.

Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla

Opis

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.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Encountering the Trace
1. Im-Possibility of Not-Returning: Volver
2. Im-Possibility of Not-Sharing: Todo sobre mi madre
3. Im-Possibility of Not-Writing Otherwise: La mala educación
4. Im-Possibility of Not-Succumbing: La piel que habito
Notes
References
Index