Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Informationen zum Autor Peter William Evans is Professor of Hispanic Studies at Queen Mary University of London! UK! and the author of The Films of Luis Buñuel: Subjectivity and Desire (1995) and! with Bruce Babington! of books on Hollywood comedy! the musical and the biblical epic. Klappentext This text analyzes the director Pedro Almodovar's insights into gender! sexuality and subjectivity in his film "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown". It draws on a range of psychoanalytic and critical concepts! and sees the film as an account of the often tyrannical spell of sexual desire. Zusammenfassung This text analyzes the director Pedro Almodovar's insights into gender! sexuality and subjectivity in his film "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown". It draws on a range of psychoanalytic and critical concepts! and sees the film as an account of the often tyrannical spell of sexual desire. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments1. Synopsis2. Comedy and Melodrama3. Men and Women4. Carmen Maura5. ClosureNotesCreditsReferences

Product details

• Authors: Peter William Evans, NA NA
• Publisher: British Film Institute
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.1996
• EAN: 9780851705408
• ISBN: 978-0-85170-540-8
• No. of pages: 80
• Series: BFI Film Classics; BFI Modern Classics; BFI Film Classics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV