"This important new study will appeal to Almodovar's devotees and to film students alike, with its chronological examination of the director's career. It sheds light on each individual film, demonstrates the connections between one movie and another and examines the director's progression in terms of genre, style and cinematic technique to reveal Almodovar's growing mastery of his art."--BOOK JACKET.

It’s a book that women talk to their girlfriends about, and a book they’d like their lovers to read. It’s an “intellectually sexy experience” that lyrically, wittily and provocatively explores women’s history of romantic obsession through the telling and deconstruction of a passionate love affair.

The most handsome and rakish Viscount Lucas Merewether, wont even bother to choose his own bride to beget an heir. After all, at all costs he wishes no emotional involvement with any woman. So he sanctions his father, the Earl of Shrewsbury, to choose his bride to be. His plan for a marriage seems boring enough considering his betroth has been cloistered in a convent for ten years. However, hes about to find out that shes no angel. There is nothing boring about being married to the half Spanish Lady Isabel De Carballo. The young lady has devised her own agenda after accepting the offer of marriage. The multifarious plan calls for some desperate measures. To set herself to the task, she must go beyond seduction, a tall order for a maid untouched by man. But she must succeed, for shes after much more than his title and fortune, much more than the pleasures his body pledges to generate, shes after the very thing he fears the most, the conquest of his soul. Married to a rake brings about many twists. And the story is more than a simple romance. There is intrigue, an abduction that takes Lucas into a pirates cove and even murder. And throughout the turmoil, Isabel ignites within him a fire more intense than anything he has ever encountered before in all his experienced years. It excites him beyond words and the game of seduction he has entered, may soon render him lost in the essence of her desire.

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AlmodOvar is Spain's most successful and controversial director, representing a unique blend of art-house auteur and popular film-maker. His films, with their mix of Hollywood and European styles and of popular melodrama and comedy, have been attracting growing international audiences since the success of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. A Spanish Labyrinth is a much needed, clear, and comprehensive introduction to the films of AlmodOvar, investigating the cultural and national contexts for his work, issues of gender, sexuality, stars, genre, visual style, music, and much more. It is the ideal companion to AlmodOvar for students of film and Hispanic Studies, as well as those generally interested in film and Spanish culture.

Perhaps the best-known Spanish filmmaker to international audiences, Pedro Almodóvar gained the widespread attention of English-speaking critics and fans with the Oscar-nominated Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and the celebrated dark comedy Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!. Marvin D'Lugo offers a concise, informed, and insightful commentary on a preeminent force in modern cinema. D'Lugo follows Almodóvar's career chronologically, tracing the director's works and their increasing complexity in terms of theme and the Spanish film tradition. Drawing on a wide range of critical sources, D'Lugo explores Almodóvar's use of melodrama and Hollywood genre film, his self-invention as a filmmaker, and his on-screen sexual politics. D'Lugo also discusses what he calls "geocultural positioning," that is, Almodóvar's paradoxical ability to use his marginal positions—in terms of his class, geographical origin, and identity—to develop an expressive language that is emotionally recognizable by audiences worldwide. Two fascinating interviews with the director round out the volume. An exciting consideration of an arthouse giant, Pedro Almodóvar mixes original interpretations into an analysis sure to reward film students and specialists alike.

Around the world a growing number of people are working with the labyrinth, an ancient artefact which is fulfilling a renewed role in today's world. This book offers ideas and examples of labyrinths in use in various situations: arts, community and social settings; schools, colleges and universities; a hospice, and a secure hospital; counselling, psychotherapy and well-being; churches, retreats and interfaith contexts.