A Companion to Pedro Almódovar

Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xv Introduction: The Skin He Lives In 1 Marvin D'Lugo and Kathleen M. Vernon Part I Bio-Filmography 19 1 Almodóvar's Self-Fashioning: The Economics and Aesthetics of Deconstructive Autobiography 21 Paul Julian Smith 2 Creative Beginnings in Almodóvar's Work 39 Francisco A. Zurian 3 Almodóvar and Hitchcock: A Sorcerer's Apprenticeship 59 Dona Kercher 4 A Life, Imagined and Otherwise: The Limits and Uses of Autobiography in Almodóvar's Films 88 Alberto Mira Part II Spanish Contexts 105 5 El Deseo's "Itinerary": Almodóvar and the Spanish Film Industry 107 Marina Díaz López 6 Almodóvar and Spanish Patterns of Film Reception 129 Josetxo Cerdán and Miguel Fernández Labayen 7 Memory, Politics, and the Post-Transition in Almodóvar's Cinema 153 Juan Carlos Ibáñez 8 The Ethics of Oblivion: Personal, National, and Cultural Memories in the Films of Pedro Almodóvar 176 Adrián Pérez Melgosa Part III At the Limits of Gender 201 9 Our Rapists, Ourselves: Women and the Staging of Rape in the Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar 203 Leora Lev 10 Paternity and Pathogens: Mourning Men and the Crises of Masculinity in Todo Sobre Mi Madre and Hable Con Ella 225 Dean Allbritton 11 Domesticating Violence in the Films of Pedro Almodóvar 244 Noelia Saenz 12 La piel que habito: A Story of Imposed Gender and the Struggle for Identity 262 Francisco A. Zurian Part IV Re-readings 279 13 Re-envoicements and Reverberations in Almodóvar's Macro-Melodrama 281 Marsha Kinder 14 The Flower of His Secret: Carne trémula and the Mise en Scène of Desire 304 Celestino Deleyto 15 Scratching the Past on the Surface of the Skin: Embodied Intersubjectivity, Prosthetic Memory, and Witnessing in Almodóvar's La mala educación 322 Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla 16 Almodóvar's Stolen Images 345 Javier Herrera Part V Global Almodóvar 365 17 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: From Madrid (1988) to New York (2010) 367 Isolina Ballesteros 18 Almodóvar's Global Musical Marketplace 387 Kathleen M. Vernon 19 Almodóvar and Latin America: The Making of a Transnational Aesthetic in Volver 412 Marvin D'Lugo 20 Is there a French Almodóvar? 432 Jean-Claude Seguin 21 Almodóvar in Asia: Hong Kong, Taiwan, and LGBT Film Culture 453 E. K. Tan Part VI Art and Commerce 469 22 To the Health of the Author: Art Direction in Los abrazos rotos 471 John D. Sanderson 23 Making Spain Fashionable: Fashion and Design in Pedro Almodóvar's Cinema 495 Gerard Dapena 24 Almodóvar, Cyberfandom, and Participatory Culture 524 Vicente Rodríguez Ortega Index 551