La sexuación humana by Costa, Esteban

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Almodóvar and Trans politician. Footnotes page by De Mauro Rucovsky, Martín

Subjects: “…Pedro Almodóvar…”
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The Seminar of Ethics through cinema by Paragis, María Paula, González Pla, Florencia

“…Lacanian readings by Charles Chaplin, Jules Dassin, Federico Fellini, Woody Allen, Alfred Hitchcock, Vince Gilligan, Krzysztof Kieslowski, George Stevens, Pedro Almodóvar and the Marx Brothers"…”
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The ambivalent search for the Lost Father by Brok, Albert

“…I will also touch upon Pedro Almodovar’s personal experience with men and “ Fathers” given that hisown issues are somewhat reflected in the film. …”
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Traumatic flights, imaginary parents and neurotic bourgeoisie by Conrod, Frédéric

“…Only the fact that Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar would want to produce the work of his young Argentinian counterpart says a lot about the necessity to utilize cinema as a chock therapy where the audience confronts its own wild and primitive nature (The Freudian Id), hidden in its deep interior through centuries of accumulated repression. …”
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CINEMATIC SABOTAGES: HITCHCOCK, TARANTINO, AND ALMODÓVAR by Stallings, Gregory Charles

“…It also analyzes similar subversive themes in two contemporary movies, Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and Pedro Almodóvar’s Volver. The literal sabotage in Hitchcock’s film (the placement of bombs in relation to cinema) is combined with the murder of the husband (treating him like a piece of meat) in order to constitute a figure of radical cinema not only as anti-auretic art (in the sense of the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction according to Walter Benjamin) but also, in terms of Manuel Asensi, as an athtetic text in which the enthymematic syllogism which informs the fascist model of the world (society and politics are like an artistic work based on pure forms) is deconstructed. …”
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