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Authors: Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-31 - Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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Reconceptualising Almodóvar's films as theoretical and political resources, this innovative book examines a neglected aspect of his cinema: its engagement with
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-15 - Publisher: Manchester University Press

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This book offers a comprehensive film-by-film analysis of Spain’s most famous living director, Pedro Almodóvar. It shows how Almodóvar's films draw on vario
Reframing Trauma in Contemporary Fiction Film
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-07-31 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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In this book, Tarja Laine provides insights into how traumatic cinema invites profound affective engagement with the pathology of memory that lies at the heart
Modes of the Tragic in Spanish Cinema
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This book focuses on expressions of the tragic in Spanish cinema. Its main premise is that elements from the classical and modern tragic tradition persist and p
Emotion Pictures
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This book investigates a group of exceptional films that single-mindedly consider one particular emotion – be it pity, lust, grief, or anxiety – to examine