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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 00:31:29 -0600
From: mnewf-AT-cats.ucsc.edu (Mindy Newfarmer)
Subject: Re: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown


You might be interested in reading an essay by Laura Mulvey called "visual
pleasure and narratice cinema."   It was published in Screen magazine but
has probably been printed elsewhere!  Good Luck.
Mindy
>> I am working on an analysis of the film _Women on the Verge of a Nervous
>> Breakdown_ by Pedro Almodovar. My critique will be feminist, but I also
>>want to
>> include a textual analysis of the film's composition itself. I have already
>> been aided greatly by essays by Constance Penley and Joan Copjec, but their
>> framework is a bit too Lacanian for my tastes. Can anyone recommend anything
>> else. Can anyone also recommend anything already written on the film or on
>> Almodovar?
>>
>> Aloha nui loa,
>> Ryan
>
>Buenos dias, Ryan,
>
>Have you tried Paul Julian Smith's book _Desire Unlimited: The Cinema
>of Pedro Almodovar_ ?  New York: Verso, 1994.  There is a chapter
>titled "Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: Femininity by
>Design" - if you have any trouble getting the book, can copy this
>chapter for you no problem - have my own copy of the book.
>
>Saludos,
>Connie
>ctchir-AT-epas.utoronto.ca
>
>




   

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