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Book SynopsisPedro Almodóvar is an internationally acclaimed Spanish director. The national and international fascination over Almodóvar's cinema lies in his ability to reflect the problems of contemporary society, his lucidity in combining the urban and the rural, his ability to express the frustrations of modern man, as well as his freshness and spontaneity. Although the vast majority of studies on this Spanish director have focused on women and the gay world, his films are crowded with many types and archetypes of heterosexual men. This groundbreaking edited volume studies the men in the cinema of Almodóvar from a broad yet comprehensive and complementary perspective. Each chapter of All About Almodóvar's Men methodically dissects these male characterstheir misery and their greatness, their frustrations and their desiresoffering a kaleidoscopic view of man that goes beyond the narrow framework in which many studies have locked the rich cinema of Almodóvar.
Table of ContentsJuan Rey: The Multifaceted Man in the Cinema of Almódovar – Salomé Sola-Morales: The Villanous Man: Evil as the Incarnation of Masculinity – Mónica Barrientos-Bueno: The Seductive Man: The Long Shadow of Don Juan – Luis Alfonso Guadarrama Rico/Jannet Valero Vilchis: The Tormented Man: Crisis of Male Hegemonic Imperatives – Lorena López-Font/Carlos Fanjul-Peyró/Cristina González-Oñate: Queer Masculinities: Evolution of Homosexual, Transsexual, and Queer Characters – Víctor Hernández-Santaolalla/Javier Lozano Delmar: The (Anti)Caring Man: Exploring Care and Protection in Masculinity Roles – Antonio Molina Flores: The Invisible Man: Nothing About My Father – Manuel Garrido-Lora: The Violent Man: Aggressiveness as a Masculine Quality – Alberto Hermida/Sergio Cobo-Durán: The Son: From Corporeal Representation to the Indelible Memory – Adrián Huici Módenes: The Liquid Man: Between the Old and the Postmodern – Lucía Caro-Castaño/David Selva-Ruiz – The Satyr Man: (Hetero)Sexual Male Activity – Francisco Javier Gómez-Pérez/José Patricio Pérez-Rufí: The Castrated Man: Between Physical and Mental Disability – María del Mar Ramírez Alvarado: The National Man: The Iberian Macho – Juan J. Vargas-Iglesias: The Absent Man: Male Void as Dramatic Causality – Juan J. Vargas-Iglesias: The Cinema of Almodóvar as a Rhizome – Almodóvar’s Filmography – Notes on Contributors.
