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Desire unlimited : the cinema of Pedro Almodovar

"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" --Page 4 of cover.

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  • ""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" --Page 4 of cover."@en
  • "This text examines the work of Pedro Almodovar, the Spanish director whose nine features to date include the comedy, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), the S & M melodrama, Tie me up! Tie me down! (1990) and the family romance, High Heels (1991). This study argues not only that Almodovar is a highly skilled manipulator of cinematic form, but also that his films raise important questions'of gender, nationality and sexuality'which demand a serious response from their audience. Desire Unlimited offers analyses derived from recent feminist, gay and postmodern theory."@en
  • "With four additional chapters and original film stills, this new edition is the only study of its kind in English. The author argues that beneath Almodovar's genius for comedy and visual pleasure lies a filmmaker who deserves to be taken seriously."@en

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  • "Desire unlimited : The cinema of Pedro Almodóvar"
  • "Desire Unlimited : the Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar"
  • "Desire unlimited : the cinema of Pedro Almodovar"
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  • "Desire unlimited the cinema of Pedro Almodóvar"@en
  • "Desire unlimited : the cinema of Pedro Almodóvar"
  • "Desire unlimited : the cinema of Pedro Almodóvar"@en
  • "Desire unlimited the cinema of Pedro Almodovar"
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