Torre-Espinosa, Mario de la (2020). Almodóvar y la cultura: del ta rdofranquismo a la Movida. Gijón: TREA.

Abstract

Pedro Almodóvar, since the first moment, created projects that implied a formal, aesthetic, thematic and social renovation of the Spanish film scene. Surrounded by other agents of the “Movida madrileña”, he entered this cultural system shortly after the start of the transition to democracy, suitable period for the birth of such a distinctive figure due to the Spanish State trying to export an image of itself that could leave behind its francoist past. This one and other coordinates are analysed by Mario de la Torre-Espinosa in Almodóvar y la cultura: del tardofranquismo a la Movida, a work where he accomplishes the necessary task of taking into consideration every element that led to the inception of Almodóvar’s art career, which he fulfils by drawing on Itamar Even-Zohar’s polysystem theory.