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"Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" (BFI Modern Classics) (Paperback)

by Peter William Evans (Author)
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  • Paperback: 80 pages
  • Publisher: BFI Publishing (1 Sep 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0851705405
  • ISBN-13: 978-0851705408
  • Product Dimensions: 18.9 x 13.4 x 0.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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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, the anxieties of relationships and families, but also of the possibilities for personal liberation. The author discusses the recent history of Spain and ties the film's concerns in with the social revolution which occurred after the death of Franco.

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent! See the movie by Almodovar.*****, 8 Dec 1998
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The movie plays just as well as the book reads. The movie is often haphazard and makes the watcher interested to learn more about the characters. The book was a very quick read. I had to reread it again, slowly, poring over each of the words. It's a small book, but its significance is made greater by reading it over slowly.
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1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Humorless Critical Study of a Comedy, 8 Jul 1999
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This book manages to make a funny, sexy and irreverent movie sound like a bout of trench mouth. The author is obviously yet another victim of gender studies who keeps weaving and unweaving his text to distract us from the fact the he's writing about a pop movie without having anything like a pop sensibility that might make his opinions mean something. He weighs down a movie that is lighter than air by imposing cultural "significance" where none is needed. There are the usual genuflections to Sirk and Hitchcock ("Rear Window" is mentioned but the more appropriate "Rope" is not) but no mention of Oscar Wilde, which seems like a huge oversight given that the movie is essentially a drawing room comedy (complete with servants and young lovers) unfolding instead in a penthouse. The BFI Modern Classics series can usually be counted on to be informative and entertaining but this is the worst one I've read. It skirts by the actual production of the movie with very few anecdotes but offers up alot of tired theorizing on gender and family romance. His derogatory comments on the physical makeup of most of the actresses is my idea of poor taste; he is judgmental about them but Almodovar's camera never is. The book is a perfect example of film criticism as taxidermy.
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