{"product_id":"desire-unlimited-isbn-9781781681770","title":"Desire Unlimited","description":"In the last decade, Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar has grown from critical darling of the\u003cbr\u003e film circuit scene to mainstream success. Frequently comic, often deadly serious, always\u003cbr\u003e visually glorious, his recent films range from the Academy Award–winning drama \u003ci\u003eTalk to\u003cbr\u003e Her\u003c\/i\u003e to the 2011 horror film \u003ci\u003eThe Skin I Live In\u003c\/i\u003e. Though they are ambitious and varied in style,\u003cbr\u003e each is a distinctive innovation on the themes that have defined his work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e Desire Unlimited \u003c\/i\u003eis the classic film-by-film assessment of Almodóvar’s oeuvre,\u003cbr\u003e now updated to include his most recent work. Still the only study of its kind in English,\u003cbr\u003e it vigorously confirms its original argument that beneath Almodóvar's genius for\u003cbr\u003e comedy and visual pleasure lies a filmmaker whose work deserves to be taken with the\u003cbr\u003e utmost seriousness.\"Finely observed, compelling.\"—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Julian Smith\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor at the City University of New York. His previous books include \u003ci\u003eVision Machines: Cinema, Literature and Sexuality in Spain and Cuba, 1983–1993\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Moderns: Time, Space and Subjectivity in Contemporary Spanish Culture.\u003c\/i\u003eComprehensive, up-to-date analysis of Almodovar's works","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302670913765,"sku":"NP9781781681770","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781781681770_d4a2784b-7e2c-4a0b-95cf-335088ea2a38.jpg?v=1767725029","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/desire-unlimited-isbn-9781781681770","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}