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050	1	4	_aPN 1998.3 _bM648p 2025
082	0	0	_a791.43/75
100	1		_aMiller, Jim _q(James), _d1947- _943404
245	1	4	_aThe passion of Pedro Almodóvar : _ba self-portrait in seven films / _cJames Miller.
264		1	_aNew York : _bColumbia University Press, _c2025.
300			_axi, 204 pages ; _b23 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aVolver -- Bad education -- Pepi, Luci, Bom and other girls on the heap -- The law of desire -- The flower of my secret -- Broken embraces -- Pain and glory -- Coda : Once upon a time in the counterculture.
520			_a"James Miller became interested in Almodóvar when he realized that, like the author, he was a man of the Sixties, forged in that decade's global counterculture, and seriously pursuing his own quest for personal liberation; both author and filmmaker are fascinated with philosophy as a way of life and investigating key questions about the human condition. The Passion of Pedro Almódovar argues that the director's vision of freedom is rooted in surrealism, the philosophy of Sartre, and in a desire-oriented theory of wellbeing based on Jean Cocteau's theory of the ""surreal sex of beauty,"" which posited a third gender between the binary forms. Almodóvar is arguably the most important artist with a self-conscious interest in moral philosophy to have emerged from the global counterculture of the 1960s. His films, if taken in sequence, amount to a sustained struggle to understand, in his terms, the limits of moral autonomy and of nihilism and egotism. Like no other filmmaker before him, a generous interpretation of his oeuvre becomes increasingly difficult if one simply takes each movie as a freestanding entertainment rather than another chapter in the director's episodic and often revealing self-portrait. Collectively they provide an ongoing series of fictional alter egos, telling and retelling essential episodes in the story of his life, thinking about the past in the spirit of Proust but exploring the alternative lives he might have lived in the style of Pessoa, in this way learning more about who he is and what he might yet become. Espousing Whitman's "I contain multitudes," what may present superficially as sensationally beautiful storytelling turns out to communicate something simpler and more profound: one man's philosophy of life and the anguish behind his ongoing search for meaning."-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aAlmodóvar, Pedro _xCriticism and interpretation.
600	1	4	_aAlmodóvar, Pedro, _d1949- _xCrítica e interpretación _919894
650		4	_aDirectores de cine españoles _947128
650		4	_aDirectores y productores de cine _xCrítica e interpretación _912661
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