Last updated with more links August 25
MATCHES - On similarly flammable moments in Ray and Almodóvar
(Intertextual ignition by Catherine Grant)
Experience has taught me that the more honest and personal my work is,
the more successful I am.
(Pedro Almodóvar)
It costs a lot to be authentic, ma’am.
('Agrado' in All About My Mother)
Film Studies For Free is delighted to celebrate its eighth birthday with a tiny new video essay (above) and a whole entry (below) devoted to a wide-ranging collection of links to online and open access studies of the work of one of its favourite filmmakers of all time: Pedro Almodóvar.
Thanks so much to all FSFF's readers for being (t)here over the years! It's been a 'fount of pleasure' (as José Arroyo writes of Almodóvar's films), and an authentic joy.
Online written studies of Almodóvar's work
- José Arroyo, 'Johnny Guitar/ Women on the Verge: A Cinephile Moment at the Cinemateca Portuguesa', Notes on Film, Feburary 24, 2016
- José Arroyo, 'One of the times I interviewed Almodóvar', Notes on Film, October 24, 2015
- José Arroyo, 'A Fount of Pleasure and a Matrix of Meaning: Notes Arising from a Viewing of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown’, Notes on Film, April 18, 2014
- José Arroyo, 'Autobiography and Bad Education (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain, 2004)', Notes on Film, November 28, 2013
- Jeremy Biles, 'The Skin I Live In,' Journal of Religion and Film, Vol. 16: 1, 2012.
- Diana Bilbao, 'Volver' in Female Subjectivity and Feminist Aesthetics in Revisions of the Maternal Melodrama, PhD thesis, Mount Holyoke College, 2011 large PDF
- Nancy Blake, 'Che vuoi? Enjoying the perverse symptom in the cinema of Pedro Almodóvar'. Paper at The 22nd International Literature and Psychology Conference, 2005
- Jessica Burke, 'Body, Performance, and Control in Pedro Almodóvar’s Hable con ella', L’Érudit franco-espagnol 2, 2012
- Frédéric Conrod, ‘Castrating The Body of the Police: Portraits of an Impotent Institution in The Early Films of Pedro Almodóvar’, Canadian Journal of Film Studies/Revue Canadienne D’études Cinématographiques, 21:1, Spring/Printemps, 2012
- Kelly Dafne, 'Pedro Almodovar's Renegotiation of the Spanish Identity', Movies in 203, 2011
- Marvin D'Lugo, 'Almodóvar, El Deseo and the co-Production of Latin American Space', Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe, 24.1, 2013
- Brett Jessie Drummond, The Recycling of Filth: Transcultural Discourses in the Films of Pedro Almodóvar and John Waters, PhD thesis, University of Alabama, 2013
- Lucy Fischer, 'Modernity and postmaternity: High heels and Imitation of life', in: Play it again, Sam : retakes on remakes, edited by Andrew Horton and Stuart Y. McDougal (Berkeley : University of California Press, 1998)
- Cătălina-Florina Florescu, ‘Questioning Two Canonical Concepts of ‘Self’ and ‘Authenticity’ in Pedro Almodóvar’s Film All about My Mother’, University of Bucharest Review Vol. X, no. 1, 2008
- John Gibbs, 'Looking, talking and understanding: subjectivity and point of view in Talk to Her (2002)', in Filmmakers' Choices (“Close-Up 01/MOVIE eBooks, 2006/2015), downloadable here: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/film/movie/ebooks
- Jorge Gorostiza, 'Backdrops and Miniatures: The Other Madrid Built by Pedro Almodóvar', Cine y...., vol. 1, nº 2, 2008
- Fiona Jenkins, 'Grief’s Testimony: On Almodóvar’s All About My Mother', SCAN, 4.2, 2007
- Orit Kamir, 'Feminist Law and Film: Imagining Judges and Justice', Chicago-Kent Law Review, 75:3, Symposium on Unfinished Feminist Business, June 2000 [a close reading of Pedro Almodóvar's High Heels]
- Lam, Sze-man, 'All about sexuality: gender studies in Pedro Almodovar's films', The HKU Scholars' Hub, 2004
- Kevin B. Lee, '937 (78). La Ley del deseo / Law of Desire (1987, Pedro Almodovar)', Shooting Down Pictures, November 30, 2008
- Stephen Maddison, 'Pedro Almodóvar and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: the Heterosocial Spectator and Misogyny', Chapter 4 of Fags, hags, and queer sisters : gender dissent and heterosocial bonds in gay culture (New York : St. Martin's, 2000)
- Stephen Maddison, 'All about women: Pedro Almodóvar and the heterosocial dynamic', Textual Practice, 2000
- Carla Marcantonio, 'The Flower of My Secret', Senses of Cinema, 35, 2005
- Carla Marcantonio, 'The transvestite figure and film noir: Pedro Almodóvar's transnational imaginary', Contemporary Spanish Cinema and Genre, 2008
- Carla Marcantonio, 'Cinema, Transgenesis, and History in The Skin I Live In,' Social Text, 2015
- Steven Marsh, 'Pedro Almodóvar', Senses of Cinema, July 2006
- Daniel Mendelsohn, 'The Women of Pedro Almodóvar', The New York Review of Books, 54: 3, March 1, 2007
- Felix Monguilot, 'The Skin I Live In: Sexual Identity and Captivity in a Film by Pedro Almodóvar', Offscreen, 9.9, 2015
- Adriana Novoa, 'Whose Talk Is It? Almodóvar and the Fairy Tale in Talk to Her', Marvels & Tales 19.2 (2005)
- Kamila Oleksiak, Intertextuality in the cinema of Pedro Almodóvar, Masters Thesis, University of Amsterdam, 2009
- Corinne Pache, 'Almodóvar's Female Odyssey'. Classical Outlook, 87(2), 2010
- Marie Piganiol, ‘Transgenderism and Transsexuality in Almodovar’s Movies’, Amsterdam Social Science, Vol. 1(2), 2009
- Vicente Rodríguez Ortega, 'Almodóvar, Cyberfandom, and Participatory Culture', Academia.edu, 2013
- Vicente Rodríguez Ortega, 'Trailing the Spanish Auteur: Amenábar, Almodóvar and de la Iglesia's generic routes in the US market', Academia.edu, 2008
- María Rox Barasoain, The Films of Pedro Almodóvar: Translation and Reception in the United States, PhD thesis, University of León, 2008
- Vanna Sann, Authorship in Transnational Cinema: Pedro Almodovar, Wong Kar-wai, and the Star-Auteur, PhD thesis, Faculty of theGraduate School of Arts and Sciences of Georgetown University, 2007
- Added Paul Julian Smith, Pedro Almodóvar’s Los Amantes Pasajeros (I’m So Excited), Film Quarterly, Spring 2013, Vol. 66, No. 3
- Added Paul Julian Smith, 'Escape Artistry: Debating The Skin I Live In', Film Quarterly, 2011
- Added Paul Julian Smith, 'Only Connect: On Hable con ella', Sight and Sound, July 2002
- Added Paul Julian Smith, 'Silicone and Sentiment: All About My Mother', Sight and Sound, 1999
- Added Paul Julian Smith, 'La piel que habito/The Skin I live In', Film Quarterly, September 2011
- Roberto Strongman, 'The Latin American Queer Aesthetics of El Bolereo', Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Vol. 32, No. 64, 2007
- Silviya Svejenova, 'The Path with the Heart’: Creating the Authentic Career', Journal of Management Studies, 42.5, 2005 [a management studies approach to Almodóvar's career]
- Karl J. Trybus, ‘Recasting the Post-Fascist Male Body: The Films of Germany’s Fassbinder and Spain’s Almodóvar’, Historia Actual Online,15, Winter 2008
- Kathleen M. Vernon, 'Almodóvar’s Global Musical Marketplace,' A Companion to Pedro Almodóvar. Eds. Marvin D’Lugo and Kathleen M. Vernon. London: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2013,
- Sônia Weidner Maluf, ‘Embodiment and Desire: All About my Mother and Gender at the Margins’, LSE Gender Institute: New Working Paper Series, Issue 14, May 2005
- Barrie Wharton, 'All About Almodóvar; a revisionist assessment of the cultural revolution in post-transition Spain'. Voces Hispanas: Australian Journal Of Hispanic Studies, 6 (1), 2011
- Linda M. Willem, 'Almodóvar on the Verge of Cocteau's La Voix humaine,' Literature/Film Quarterly 26 (1998)
- Linda M. Willem, 'Rewriting Rendell: Pedro Almodovar's Carne trémula', Literature/Film Quarterly 30 (2002)
Added Online audio about Almodóvar's work
Online videos about Almodóvar's work
Online videos about Almodóvar's work
Full length BAFTA interview with Almodóvar online here (50 minutes): http://bcove.me/vprjzlwm
The Portrayal of Illness in the Oeuvre of Pedro Almodovar: Blindness and the Voyeur - Candace Skibba, Carnegie Mellon University by Candace Skibba
Modernismo y Postmodernismo en el cine from Trailer Book Factory
Que he hecho yo para merecer esto video essay from Cristina A.Matamoros
Alms of Almodóvar: Money and Gender Roles in¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto! from Matt Bateman
Que he hecho yo para merecer esto video essay from Cristina A.Matamoros
Alms of Almodóvar: Money and Gender Roles in¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto! from Matt Bateman
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