Constructing His Own Soundtrack’s Records Film Music in the Mature Years of Almodóvar’s Creation. Analying Frauen am Rande des Nervenzusammenbruchs (1988)

Abstract

In this seminar I want to stop and reconsider what importance Almodóvar attaches to music in his film and which one can his purpose be, what type of music does he use and what kind of functions does he give, which composers he commissions for his music, the importance that music has in the overall perspective of all his films. I think that these points will help all of us to evaluate this director’s creative talent and, therefore, evaluate whether the fame and international reception given to Almodóvar is deserved or not. The method we are going to use to present this talk is the formal analysis of music as the metatext of film discourse, in its diegetic and incidental aspects, with the example of the analysis of Almodovar Film Frauen am Rande des Nervenzusammenbruchs (1988).