Ebook: A companion to Pedro Almodóvar

Introduction / Marvin D'Lugo and Kathleen M. Vernon -- Bio-Filmography. Paul Julian Smith Almodóvar's self-fashioning: the economics and aesthetics of deconstructive biography -- Francisco A. Zurián: Creative Beginnings in Almodóvar's Work -- Dona Kercher: Almodóvar and Hitchcock: a sorcerer's apprenticeship -- Alberto Mira: A life, imagined and otherwise: the limits and uses of autobiography in Almodóvar's films -- Spanish Contexts. Marina Diaz López: El Deseo's Itinerary: Almodóvar and the Spanish film industry -- Josetxo Cerdán: Almodóvar and Spanish patterns of film reception and Miguel Fernandez -- Juan Carlos Ibanez: Memory, politics and the post-transition in Almodóvar's cinema -- Adrissn Pérez Melgosa: The ethics of oblivion: personal, national, and cultural memories in the films of Pedro Almodóvar -- At the limits of gender. Leora Lev: Our rapists ourselves: Women and the staging of rape in the cinema of Pedro Almodóvar -- Dean Albritton: Paternity & pathogens: mourning men and the crises of masculinity in Almodóvar -- Noelia Saenz: Domesticating violence in the films of Pedro Almodóvar -- Francisco A. Zurián: La piel que habito: a story of imposed gender and the struggle for identity -- Re-readings. Marsha Kinder: reenvoicements and reverberations in Almodóvar's macro-melodrama -- Celestino Deleyto: The flower of his secret: Carne trémula and the Mise en scene of Desire -- Julian Daniel Gutiérrez-Albila: Scratching the past on the "surface" of the "skin": embodied inter-subjectivity, prosthetic memory, and witnessing in Almodóvar's La mala educación -- Javier Herrera: Almodóvar's Stolen images -- Global Almodóvar. Isolina Ballesteros: Women on the verge of nervous breakdown: from Madrid (1988) to New York (2010) -- Kathleen M. Vernon: Almodóvar's global musical marketplace -- Marvin D'lugo: Almodóvar and Latin America: The making of a transnational aesthetic in Volver -- Jean-Claude Seguin: Is there a French Almodóvar? -- E K Tan: Almodóvar in Asia: Hong Kong, Taiwan and LGBT film culture -- Art and commerce. John D. Sanderson: To the health of the author: art direction in Los abrazos rotos -- Gerard Dapena: Making Spain fashionable -- Vicente Rodriguez-Ortega: Almodóvar, cyberfandom and participatory culture.