Books by Marvin D'Lugo

Looks at the social and artistic forces behind this film auteur's personal cinema. Tracing Saura's career over three decades, this book discusses each work from "Hooligans" (1959), a film about a Madrid street-gang member trying to become a bullfighter, to "The Dark Night" (1989), a film dealing with the persecution of a religious reformer.

Follows Pedro Almodovar's career chronologically as he moves from amateur to international celebrity, and understands the films' complexity in terms of the director's central themes and the Spanish film tradition from which he comes. This work is of interest to new film students and specialists alike.