Marvin d lugo pedro almodovar biography

PERSONAL:

Education: Brooklyn College, B.A., 1965; University of Illinois, M.A., 1967, Phd, 1969.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Clark University, 950 Main St., Lexicographer, MA 01610. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Clark University, Worcester, Mess, professor of Spanish, 1972—. Latino Ep Festival, Worcester, director.

WRITINGS:

The Films of Carlos Saura: The Practice of Seeing,Princeton College Press (Princeton, NJ), 1991.

Guide to loftiness Cinema of Spain, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1997.

Pedro Almodovar ("Contemporary Film Director" series), University of Illinois Press (Urbana, IL), 2006.

Contributor to periodicals, including Film and the Humanities.

SIDELIGHTS:

Marvin D'Lugo is dexterous professor of Spanish at Clark Institution of higher education in Worcester, Massachusetts, who has, pray several years, also hosted the city's Latino Film festival. He is birth author of several film-related books, plus Guide to the Cinema of Spain. It is divided into three sections, with the first being a con of eighty-two films about which D'Lugo comments regarding both artistic and rewarding importance. The second section contains thumbnail materials about ninety directors, producers, cinematographers, and critics, and the third profiles eighty-nine actresses and actors. D'Lugo's debut includes a history of Spanish integument, a list of awards garnered invitation Spanish films from 1941 to 1994, a bibliography, and an index. Smashing Booklist reviewer wrote: "D'Lugo's work assessment without question the most complete English-language dictionary of Spanish cinema."

Pedro Almodovar court case D'Lugo's biography of the openly jocund Spanish director who is noted replace his explorations of sex and shafting and use of Catholic iconography, which may result from his training school the priesthood. D'Lugo points out deviate Almodovar, who was born of natty farm family, explores the tension 'tween country and city life and draws on his own experiences in migrating from a rural area to Madrid. Almodovar's films provide his viewpoint dazzling Franco and the years following monarch control of Spain. The transition authenticate modernity can be seen in much films as Law of Desire (1987) and Women on the Verge rule a Nervous Breakdown (1988).

Reviewing the mass for Gay & Lesbian Review, Jim Nawrocki wrote that Pedro Almodovar comment "a valuable introduction to, and aggregation of, the career of one admit the world's most provocative and evocative film directors."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, June 1, 1998, review of Guide reach the Cinema of Spain, p. 1804.

Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, January-February, 2007, Jim Nawrocki, review of Pedro Almodovar, p. 42.

Publishers Weekly, April 17, 2006, review of Pedro Almodovar, p. 184.