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Law of desire / Jose Quiroga.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Quiroga, Jose, 1959-
- Series:
- Queer film classics.
- A queer film classic
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gay people in motion pictures.
- Law of desire (Motion picture).
- Local Subjects:
- Law of desire (Motion picture).
- Physical Description:
- 155 p. : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Law of Desire, one of three inaugural titles in Arsenal Pulp Press' new film book series Queer Film Classics, focuses on the 1987 homoerotic melodrama by Pedro Almodóvar, Spain's most successful contemporary film director. The film Law of Desire is a grand tale of love, lust, and amnesia featuring three main characters: a gay film director (played by Eusebio Poncela); his sister, an actress who was once his brother (Carmen Maura); and a repressed, obsessive stalker (a young Antonio Banderas).
- Contents:
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- SyNOPSIS
- CREDITS
- INTRODUCTION: QUEER MELODRAMA
- ONE: THE SUMMER BEGINS
- TWO: ART, MURDER, AND LOSS
- THREE: AMNESIA AND DESIRE
- REFERENCES
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612467486
- 9781282467484
- 1282467484
- 9781551523507
- 1551523507
- OCLC:
- 824458673
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