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Description: Pedro Almodovar by Paula Willoquet-Maricondi In full command of both Hollywood stylistics and camp aesthetics, Spains Pedro Almodóvar has become a master of the audacious and the unorthodox, of the permissive and the polemical. Pedro Almodóvar: Interviews documents the 22-year-long cinematic career of the most internationally celebrated Spanish art-film director since Luís Buñuel. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In full command of both Hollywood stylistics and camp aesthetics, Spains Pedro Almodóvar (b. 1951) has become a master of the audacious and the unorthodox, of the permissive and the polemical. Pedro Almodóvar: Interviews documents the 22-year-long cinematic career of the most internationally celebrated Spanish art-film director since Luís Buñuel. Many of these interviews, from French, Italian, and Spanish periodicals, appear for the first time in English. Almodóvars early cinematic ventures in Super 8 and 16mm in the 1970s marked and memorialized the rise of the Movida, Madrids underground vanguard artistic movement. Almodóvars critical success in his native Spain came with What Have I Done to Deserve This? Almodóvar made his mark in the United States with his kitschy, melodramatic comedy and Academy Award nominee Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, and his outlandish and irreverently funny Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! For all its taboo-breaking plots, eccentric characterizations, and explosive palettes, Almodóvars cinema of excess has matured into one of tender compassion. All About My Mother, winner of the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar and of Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival, and his fourteenth feature to date, Talk to Her, winner of the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, 2003, cement Almodóvars commitment to characters on the margins and to social critique. Covering more than two decades, the interviews collected here trace Almodóvars journey from the small village of Calzada de Calatrava to Madrid, from his humble and Catholic provincial upbringing to his superstar status as Spains leading postmodern auteur. Originally published in Spain, France, Italy, and the United States, these conversations disclose as much about Almodóvars personal biography as they do about his thematic universe, his directorial personality, and his maturing style. Paula Willoquet-Maricondi is assistant professor of media arts at Marist College, in Poughkeepsie, New York. She is the co-editor of Peter Greenaways Postmodern/Poststructuralist Cinema. Flap A collection of interviews that documents the 22-year long cinematic career of the most internationally celebrated Spanish art-film director since Lu Author Biography Paula Willoquet-Maricondi is assistant professor of media arts at Marist College, in Poughkeepsie, New York. She is coeditor of Peter Greenaways Postmodern/Poststructuralist Cinema. Long Description In full command of both Hollywood stylistics and camp aesthetics, Spains Pedro Almod Promotional "Headline" A collection of interviews that documents the 22-year long cinematic career of the most internationally celebrated Spanish art-film director since Lu Details ISBN1578065690 Short Title PEDRO ALMODOVAR Publisher University Press of Mississippi Series Conversations with Filmmakers (Paperback) Language English ISBN-10 1578065690 ISBN-13 9781578065691 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2004 Imprint University Press of Mississippi Place of Publication Jackson Country of Publication United States Edited by Paula Willoquet-Maricondi Illustrations Ill. Author Paula Willoquet-Maricondi Subtitle Interviews DOI 10.1604/9781578065691 AU Release Date 2004-01-13 NZ Release Date 2004-01-13 UK Release Date 2004-01-13 Pages 277 Publication Date 2004-01-30 DEWEY 791.430233092 Audience General US Release Date 2004-01-30 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:168571028;

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