Aesthetics, Ethics and Trauma in the Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar

One Of Spain's Most Celebrated Directors, Pedro Almodóvar Has Won International Recognition For His Dark Comedy-dramas Like Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown, All About My Mother And Volver. Conventionally Seen As An 'apolitical' Or 'historical' Body Of Work, Almodóvar's Films As Instead Reconceptualised In This Innovative Book As Theoretical And Political Resources, And The Author Examines A Neglected Aspect Of Almodóvar's Cinema: Its Engagement With The Traumatic Past, With Subjective And Collective Memory, And With The Ethical And Political Meanings That Result From This Engagement. Departing From A Standard Auteurist Approach To The Director, Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-albilla Uses Close Readings Of Almodóvar's Films From The 1990s And 2000s - Including Bad Education And The Skin I Live In - To Explore How His Cinema Mourns And Witnesses The Traces Of Trauma, And To Reframe Recent Arguments About The Recuperation Of Historical Memory. Drawing On Theoretical Approaches From Trauma Studies, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, Film Studies And Visual Studies, This Book Suggests That Almodovar's Work Proposes An Ethical Model That Is Based On Our Compassionate Relations To Others, And That Envisions A World Co-inhabited By Plurality And Difference. Book Jacket. Machine Generated Contents Note: 1. Im-possibility Of Not-returning: Volver -- 2. Im-possibility Of Not-sharing: Todo Sobre Mi Madre -- 3. Im-possibility Of Not-writing Otherwise: La Mala Education -- 4. Im-possibility Of Not-succumbing: La Piel Que Habito. Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-albilla. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.