Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,9780851705408

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

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ISBN13: 9780851705408
ISBN10: 0851705405
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1996-10-27
Publisher(s): British Film Inst
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Summary

This text analyzes the director Pedro Almodovar's insights into gender, sexuality and subjectivity in his film "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown". It draws on a range of psychoanalytic and critical concepts, and sees the film as an account of the often tyrannical spell of sexual desire.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 7(1)
Synopsis
8(2)
Comedy and Melodrama
10(17)
Men and Women
27(29)
Carmen Maura
56(15)
Closure
71(3)
Notes 74(2)
Credits 76(2)
References 78

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