A través de varias entrevistas personales realizadas por la autora, se recoge información sobre la vida y obra del director de cine. Se da una visión crítica sobre las películas, se realiza una "guía almodovariana" con la finalidad de servir de diccionario temático para seguir la evolución de los objetos, lugares o personajes y una filmografía completa de sus trabajos profesionales acompañados de una sinopsis.

This book offers a comprehensive film-by-film analysis of Spain’s most famous living director, Pedro Almodóvar. It shows how Almodóvar's films draw on various national cinemas and genres, including Spanish cinema of the dictatorship, European art cinema, Hollywood melodrama and film noir. It also argues that Almodóvar's work is a form of social critique, his films consistently engaging with and challenging stereotypes about traditional and contemporary Spain in order to address Spain's traumatic historical past and how it continues to inform the present. Drawing on scholarship in both English and Spanish, the book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of film studies and Hispanic studies, scholars of contemporary cinema and general readers with a passion for the films of Pedro Almodóvar.

Este libro se adentra en los planteamientos findamentales de su obra, analizando sus constantes, desvelando la estructura de sus films, buceando en las relaciones existentes entre sus planteamientos estéticos y sus premisas ideológicas. Cada una de sus películas es abordada por diferentes especialistas -críticos, historiadores de cine, profesores de universidad- desde distintos puntos de vista, que en más de una ocasión parten de planteamientos distintos e incluso claramente enfrentados.

The huge international success of his latest feature, All About My Mother, has finally granted Pedro Almodovar the recognition he deserves, as the most artistically ambitious and commercially consistent film-maker in Europe.

Reconceptualising Almodóvar's films as theoretical and political resources, this innovative book examines a neglected aspect of his cinema: its engagement with the traumatic past, with subjective and collective memory, and with the ethical and political meanings that result from this engagement.