Desire Unlimited by Paul Julian Smith
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.
Paul Julian Smith is a professor at the City University of New York. His previous books include Vision Machines: Cinema, Literature and Sexuality in Spain and Cuba, 1983-1993 and The Moderns: Time, Space and Subjectivity in Contemporary Spanish Culture.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780860916628 |
| ISBN 10 | 0860916626 |
| Title | Desire Unlimited |
| Author | Paul Julian Smith |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 1994-04-17 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
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