{"product_id":"desire-unlimited-isbn-9781859843048","title":"Desire Unlimited","description":"\u003cb\u003ePedro Almodovar … winner of a BAFTA for Best Director, 2000\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\"Finely observed, compelling.\"—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Julian Smith\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Spanish and Head of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Cambridge University. 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\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Dunkerley \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Politics at Queen Mary, University of London, and Director of the Institute for the Study of the Americas. His books include \u003ci\u003eRebellion in the Veins\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePower in the Isthmus\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Long War\u003c\/i\u003e, all published by Verso.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn King\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Latin American Cultural History at the University of Warwick.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303458590949,"sku":"NP9781859843048","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781859843048.jpg?v=1767725028","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/desire-unlimited-isbn-9781859843048","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}