All About Almodóvar’s Men

All About
Almodóvar’s Men

EDITED BY

Juan Rey

TRANSLATED BY

Francisco Uceda

PETER LANG

New York • Bern • Frankfurt • Berlin

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Rey, Juan. | Uceda Pérez, Francisco, translator.

Title: All about Almodóvar’s men / edited by Juan Rey; [translated by Francisco Uceda]

Description: New York: Peter Lang, [2017]

Series: Masculinity studies: literary and cultural representations; vol. 8

ISSN 2161-2692 (print) | 2161-2706 (online)

Includes bibliographical references.

Text in English; original chapter submissions translated from Spanish.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017020287 | ISBN 978-1-4331-3864-5 (hardcover: alk. paper)

ISBN 978-1-4331-3865-2 (epdf) | ISBN 978-1-4331-3866-9 (epub)

ISBN 978-1-4331-3867-6 (mobi)

Subjects: LCSH: Almodóvar, Pedro—Criticism and interpretation.

Men in motion pictures.

Classification: LCC PN1998.3.A46 A45 2017 | DDC 791.4302/33092—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017020287

DOI 10.3726/978-1-4331-3865-2

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About the author

Juan Rey prepared his doctoral thesis "The representation of masculinity in advertising discourse" at the School of Social Communications of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan (Italy) and defended it at the University of Seville (Spain). He was the recipient of the Extraordinary Doctorate Award.

About the book

Pedro 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 characters—their misery and their greatness, their frustrations and their desires—offering a kaleidoscopic view of man that goes beyond the narrow framework in which many studies have locked the rich cinema of Almodóvar.

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Contents

1. The Multifaceted Man in the Cinema of Almódovar

Juan Rey

2. The Villanous Man: Evil as the Incarnation of Masculinity

Salomé Sola-Morales

3. The Seductive Man: The Long Shadow of Don Juan

Mónica Barrientos-Bueno

4. The Tormented Man: Crisis of Male Hegemonic Imperatives

Luis Alfonso Guadarrama Rico and Jannet Valero Vilchis

5. Queer Masculinities: Evolution of Homosexual, Transsexual, and Queer Characters

Lorena López-Font, Carlos Fanjul-Peyró and Cristina González-Oñate

6. The (Anti)Caring Man: Exploring Care and Protection in Masculinity Roles

Víctor Hernández-Santaolalla and Javier Lozano Delmar

7. The Invisible Man: Nothing About My Father

Antonio Molina Flores

8. The Violent Man: Aggressiveness as a Masculine Quality

Manuel Garrido-Lora

9. The Son: From Corporeal Representation to the Indelible Memory

Alberto Hermida and Sergio Cobo-Durán

10. The Liquid Man: Between the Old and the Postmodern

Adrián Huici Módenes←v | vi→

11. The Satyr Man: (Hetero)Sexual Male Activity

Lucía Caro-Castaño and David Selva-Ruiz

12. The Castrated Man: Between Physical and Mental Disability

Francisco Javier Gómez-Pérez and José Patricio Pérez-Rufí

13. The National Man: The Iberian Macho

María del Mar Ramírez Alvarado

14. The Absent Man: Male Void as Dramatic Causality

Juan J. Vargas-Iglesias