Carla Marcantonio
Biographic Data
| ID | 525308 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carla Marcantonio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carla |
| FAMILY NAME | Marcantonio |
| SIGNATURE | MARCANTONIO C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Strange Way of Life
Strange Way of Life (2023), Pedro Almodóvar’s most recent English-language short film is the director’s first engagement with the Western. Based on the various interviews that the director has granted during the promotion of his film, the essay discusses the origins for the project and the script; the influence of the classic Western genre on the story and the film’s aesthetic choices; and the aspirations behind this queer, mid-life cowboy film
Almodóvar Looks Back, translated by Carla Marcantonio
The celebrated Spanish director reflects upon four decades of filmmaking, his influences, and his creative process
Digging Up the Future
What do feminists, kitchens, and Spain’s ongoing historical trauma have to do with each other? In an Almodóvar film, well, everything. Pedro Almodóvar has been making genre-, gender-, and boundary-pushing cinema for forty-two years—nearly the entire post-Franco period—during which time he has released an impressive twenty-two (and a half) feature films. Yet, it is only now, with Madres paralelas (Parallel Mothers, 2021), that the director directl…
Il Cinema Ritrovato 2022
FQ contributing editor Carla Marcantonio returns to Il Cinema Ritrovato, the festival dedicated to the rediscovery of old films organized every summer by the Cineteca di Bologna. This year’s edition marked the first time its audience of international cinephiles reassembled for a wholly in-person experience since the onset of the COVID pandemic. With a total of close to four hundred films and thirty-five to forty screenings a day, the festival off…
Global Melodrama: Nation, Body, and History in Contemporary Film
Global Melodrama is the first booklength work to investigate melodrama in a specifically twenty-first century setting across regional and national boundaries, analyzing film texts from a variety of national contexts in the wake of globalization
Cinema, Transgenesis, and History in The Skin I Live In
Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In is a film whose glossy surface belies its investment in history—cinema’s history, Spain’s history, transnational history. It tracks a correspondence among cinema, transsexuality, and medium specificity through the trope of transgenesis: skin has been manufactured by the film’s plastic surgeon to cover the character upon whom he has also forced a sex change. The transgenic skin is also produced extratextually, …
The Mute Female Body and narrative Dispossession in Pedro Almodóvar'sTalk to her
Pedro Almodóvar and Judith Butler's respective projects have long shared an interest in the performativity of gender. More recently, Butler has turned her attention to thinking of rupture as constitutive of identity. Talk to Her reveals a similar turn in the director's work. This essay argues that Talk to Her employs the figure of a comatose woman who awakens in order to investigate the condition of wakefulness as a newly achieved consciousness. …
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The Mute Female Body and narrative Dispossession in Pedro Almodóvar'sTalk to her
Pedro Almodóvar and Judith Butler's respective projects have long shared an interest in the performativity of gender. More recently, Butler has turned her attention to thinking of rupture as constitutive of identity. Talk to Her reveals a similar turn in the director's work. This essay argues that Talk to Her employs the figure of a comatose woman who awakens in order to investigate the condition of wakefulness as a newly achieved consciousness. …
Global Melodrama: Nation, Body, and History in Contemporary Film
Global Melodrama is the first booklength work to investigate melodrama in a specifically twenty-first century setting across regional and national boundaries, analyzing film texts from a variety of national contexts in the wake of globalization
Cinema, Transgenesis, and History in The Skin I Live In
Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In is a film whose glossy surface belies its investment in history—cinema’s history, Spain’s history, transnational history. It tracks a correspondence among cinema, transsexuality, and medium specificity through the trope of transgenesis: skin has been manufactured by the film’s plastic surgeon to cover the character upon whom he has also forced a sex change. The transgenic skin is also produced extratextually, …
Digging Up the Future
What do feminists, kitchens, and Spain’s ongoing historical trauma have to do with each other? In an Almodóvar film, well, everything. Pedro Almodóvar has been making genre-, gender-, and boundary-pushing cinema for forty-two years—nearly the entire post-Franco period—during which time he has released an impressive twenty-two (and a half) feature films. Yet, it is only now, with Madres paralelas (Parallel Mothers, 2021), that the director directl…
Il Cinema Ritrovato 2022
FQ contributing editor Carla Marcantonio returns to Il Cinema Ritrovato, the festival dedicated to the rediscovery of old films organized every summer by the Cineteca di Bologna. This year’s edition marked the first time its audience of international cinephiles reassembled for a wholly in-person experience since the onset of the COVID pandemic. With a total of close to four hundred films and thirty-five to forty screenings a day, the festival off…
Strange Way of Life
Strange Way of Life (2023), Pedro Almodóvar’s most recent English-language short film is the director’s first engagement with the Western. Based on the various interviews that the director has granted during the promotion of his film, the essay discusses the origins for the project and the script; the influence of the classic Western genre on the story and the film’s aesthetic choices; and the aspirations behind this queer, mid-life cowboy film
Almodóvar Looks Back, translated by Carla Marcantonio
The celebrated Spanish director reflects upon four decades of filmmaking, his influences, and his creative process
Art (7 works) · Art history (4 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Spanish Culture and Identity (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Movie theater (3 works)