{"product_id":"9781452914398","title":"All about Almodóvar: A Passion for Cinema","description":"\u003cbr\u003e One of world cinema’s most exciting filmmakers, Pedro Almodóvar has been delighting, provoking, arousing, shocking, and—above all—entertaining audiences around the globe since he first burst on the international film scene in the early 1980s. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll about Almodóvar\u003c\/i\u003e offers new perspectives on the filmmaker’s artistic vision and cinematic preoccupations, influences, and techniques. Through overviews of his oeuvre and in-depth analyses of specific films, the essays here explore a diverse range of subjects: Almodóvar’s nuanced use of television and music in his films; his reworkings of traditional film genres such as comedy, horror, and film noir; his penchant for melodrama and its relationship to melancholy, violence, and coincidence; his intricate questioning of sexual and national identities; and his increasingly sophisticated inquiries into visuality and its limits.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClosing with Almodóvar’s own diary account of the making of Volver and featuring never-before-seen photographs from El Deseo production studio, \u003ci\u003eAll about Almodóvar \u003c\/i\u003eboth reflects and illuminates its subject’s dazzling eclecticism.","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180119605488,"sku":"9781452914398","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781452914398_p0.jpg?v=1763845298","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781452914398","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}