Pedro Almodóvar - A Cinema of Desire, Passion and Compulsion

"This is an exciting and excited collection of essays by a talented group of psychoanalysts, scholars and artists who take us right into the dark, antic, ribald, mocking heart and brilliant mind of that enfant terrible of Spanish film--Pedro Almodóvar. His wildly joyous, and viciously murderous, transgressive social misfits loving and torturing each other leap out here on the edge of fragmentation - yet are held together by this analytic approach that never lectures but urges exploration. The chapters are a film festival--a carnival of his movies. Spanish history and how it holds trauma is also offered. Power, desire and intense passion is fulsomely addressed by the editors; a fascinating read."
Rosemary H. Balsam, F.R.C. Psych., Assoc. Clinical Prof Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine. Training and Supervising Analyst, Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis. Author: Women's Bodies in Psychoanalysis, Routledge.

Product details

• Assisted by: Arlene Kramer Richards (Editor), Lucille Spira (Editor)
• Publisher: Ipbooks
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.01.2019
• EAN: 9781949093100
• ISBN: 978-1-949093-10-0
• No. of pages: 324
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 471 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet