Desire Unlimited: The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar

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Desire Unlimited: The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar - Paperback

Desire Unlimited: The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar - Paperback

by Paul Julian Smith
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by Paul Julian Smith (Author)

In the last decade, Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar has grown from critical darling of the
film circuit scene to mainstream success. Frequently comic, often deadly serious, always
visually glorious, his recent films range from the Academy Award-winning drama Talk to
Her to the 2011 horror film The Skin I Live In. Though they are ambitious and varied in style,
each is a distinctive innovation on the themes that have defined his work.

Desire Unlimited is the classic film-by-film assessment of Almodóvar's oeuvre,
now updated to include his most recent work. Still the only study of its kind in English,
it vigorously confirms its original argument that beneath Almodóvar's genius for
comedy and visual pleasure lies a filmmaker whose work deserves to be taken with the
utmost seriousness.

Author Biography

Paul Julian Smith is a professor at the City University of New York. His previous books include Vision Machines: Cinema, Literature and Sexuality in Spain and Cuba, 1983-1993 and The Moderns: Time, Space and Subjectivity in Contemporary Spanish Culture.

Number of Pages: 272
Dimensions: 0.7 x 8.4 x 7.8 IN
Publication Date: August 12, 2014
ISBN9781781681770
Author Paul Julian Smith
PublisherVerso
GenreArts
FormatPaperback
PublishedAugust 2014
Edition3
LanguageENG- English
Pages272
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Paul Julian Smith is distinguished professor at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of nineteen books, including Mexican Screen Fiction: Between Cinema and Television, Amores Perros, and Desire Unlimited: The Cinema of Pedro Almod?var. He was a juror at the Morelia and San Sebasti?n International Film Festivals and is a columnist at Film Quarterly.

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