알모도바르의 멜로드라마 영화 연구

Abstract

This study is to survey the specific structure and characters of melodrama in the filmography of the spanish director Pedro Almodóvar. This kind of filmic genre and its consequent strategies have been constructed in Hollywood melodrama, especially by the classic works as Douglas Sirk's <Imitation of Life>. The eclectic style of Almodóvar, derived from the conflictive combination between Hollywood style and European auteur style, contribute to the creativity of Almodóvar melodrama in its narrative form and emotional nivel. Despite the genre variety of spanish director, many scholars have shared the opinion that melodrama is very dominant in his all films: the melodrama films or the melodramatic films. In this article we select his 5 melodramas to analyze: <High Hill>, <All about My Mother> categorized in "motherhood melodrama and simulation; <Law of Desire>, <The Bad Education> in queer melodrama and bricolage; <Talk to Her> as the self-reflexive melodrama. We are dedicated to analyze each filmic asthetic strategy and investigate on how these strategies work to make Almodóvar melodramas specially stylistic types foregrounded in the Hollywood classic melodramas. Through these analyses, we have discovered that the concepts like simulation(included perfomance), bricolage and auto-reflexivity produced the kind of metamorphosis of melodrama's concepts of Almodóvar.