{"product_id":"desire-unlimited-the-cinema-of-pedro-almodovar","title":"Desire Unlimited: The Cinema of Pedro Almodovar","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eDesire Unlimited: The Cinema of Pedro Almodovar\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003ePaul Julian Smith\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781859843048\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eVerso\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2000\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eSecond\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e240\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ePedro Almodovar ... winner of a BAFTA for Best Director, 2000\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAll About My Mother\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e ... Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film, 2000\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe huge international success of his latest feature, \u003ci\u003eAll About My Mother\u003c\/i\u003e, has finally granted Pedro Almodovar the recognition he deserves, as the most artistically ambitious and commercially consistent film-maker in Europe. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrequently comic, often deadly serious, always visually glorious, his films range from the screwball comedy \u003ci\u003eWomen on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown\u003c\/i\u003e and the SM melodrama \u003ci\u003eTie Me Up! Tie Me Down!\u003c\/i\u003e to the almost classically austere \u003ci\u003eLive Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e. And, while questions of gender, nationality and sexuality have always been Almodovar's concern, new subjects have been addressed in his more recent work: the corrosive effects of a deregulated Spanish media, the transition from dictatorship to democracy and, in \u003ci\u003eAll About My Mother\u003c\/i\u003e, uncompromising explorations of the process of mourning. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis new edition includes four new chapters, among which is a rare interview with Almodovar himself, a new preface and additional illustrations. Still the only study of its kind in English, it vigorously confirms its original argument, that beneath Almodovar's genius for comedy and visual pleasure lies a film-maker whose work deserves to be taken with the utmost seriousness.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Desire Unlimited: The Cinema of Pedro Almodovar | Paul Julian Smith | Paperback | 9781859843048 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks E 1760751","offer_id":49229571752088,"sku":"1760751","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/812sLUeEkZL.jpg?v=1781218993","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/desire-unlimited-the-cinema-of-pedro-almodovar","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}