The Films of Pedro Almodóvar: A Director Before, On the Verge of, and After a Nervous Breakdown

Malcolm Compitello
Mondays 9 AM - 12 PM
September 23, 30, October 7, 14, and 21, 2019
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The Films of Pedro Almodóvar: A Director Before, On the Verge of, and After a Nervous Breakdown

Fall 2019
In Session
Mondays
9 AM - 12 PM
September 23, 30, October 7, 14, and 21, 2019

Location: 

Main Campus

Tuition: 

$180

Pedro Almodóvar is now one of the world’s most highly regarded international directors. This course uses Women on the Verge (1998), his international breakthrough film, as the fulcrum to examine the before and after of his film making. The class will examine Women on the Verge and four other representative films from across the arc of the director’s career: What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984), All About My Mother (1999), Talk to Her (2002), and Volver (2006), and will refer to the other films the Spanish director has made. The analysis of these films will enable participants to gain a sense of the constants that power Almodóvar’s vision and the elements in his body of work that change over time. 

NEW Partnership with Hacienda at the Canyon

We are excited to announce that this course will be the first one held at the new Hacienda at the Canyon senior living community on the Northeast side of Tucson (3900 N Sabino Canyon Rd). This course represents an exciting new partnership between the Humanities Seminars Program and Watermark Retirement Communities.

Registration Opens Online: Monday, August 12, 2019 at 8AM (AZ Time)

Required Reading: 

  • No textbook is required. All readings and class materials will be distributed to students electronically. 
  • Films will be accessible via online streaming and public screenings of the films will be available for those interested. (Screening details to be determined).

Meet Your Professor

Professor Emeritus
Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Malcolm Alan Compitello is Emeritus Professor of Spanish and former Program Director for the Humanities Seminars Program. He regularly taught classes in modern and contemporary Spanish culture and literature including the work of García Lorca. Professor Compitello is the Founding Editor of the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies one of the premier scholarly journals in that field. He has published widely in venues in Europe and the United States and is currently engaged in several projects dealing with the interconnections between cities, cultural and capital as they play out in Spain since the 1960s.

  • Ted and Shirley Taubeneck Superior Teaching Award

Location

Poetry Center
Dorothy Rubel Room
1508 E Helen
Tucson, AZ 85721
United States
Located on the SE corner of Helen Street and Vine Avenue, one block north of Speedway and three blocks west of Campbell Ave.

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