Almodovar is Spain's most successful and controversial director, a unique blend of art-house auteur and popular film-maker. His films, with their mix of Hollywood and European styles and of popular melodrama and comedy, have been attracting growing international audiences since the success of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. His most recent films are the critically acclaimed Live Flesh, based on a Ruth Rendell story, and All About My Mother, the runaway winner of the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. This comprehensive introduction to the films of Almodovar investigates cultural and national contexts for his work, issues of gender, sexuality, stars, genre, visual style, music and much more.
- ISBN10 1845117980
- ISBN13 9781845117986
- Publish Date 30 July 2014 (first published 30 June 2001)
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 11 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint I.B. Tauris
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English