Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

by NA NA, Pedro Almodovar

Overview

This text analyzes the director Pedro Almodovar's insights into gender, sexuality and subjectivity in his film "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown". It draws on a range of psychoanalytic and critical concepts, and sees the film as an account of the often tyrannical spell of sexual desire.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780851705408
Publisher:	BFI Publishing
Publication date:	10/27/1996
Series:	BFI Film Classics Series
Edition description:	1996
Pages:	80
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 7.48(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

Peter William Evans is Emeritus Professor of Film at Queen Mary University of London, UK. He is the author of Written on the Wind (2013), also in the BFI Film Classics series.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the 2021 Edition 6

Acknowledgments 11

1 Synopsis 12

2 Comedy and Melodrama 14

3 Men and Women 30

4 Carmen Maura 57

5 Closure 71

Notes 74

Credits 76

References 78