15. Scratching the Past on the Surface of the Skin
Embodied Intersubjectivity, Prosthetic Memory, and Witnessing in Almodóvar's La mala educación
- Marvin D'Lugo,
- Kathleen M. Vernon
Published Online: 21 FEB 2013
DOI: 10.1002/9781118325360.ch15
Copyright © 2013 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Book Title
A Companion to Pedro Almodóvar
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How to Cite
Gutiérrez-Albilla, J. D. Scratching the Past on the Surface of the Skin, in A Companion to Pedro Almodóvar (eds M. D'Lugo and K. M. Vernon), Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford. doi: 10.1002/9781118325360.ch15
Publication History
- Published Online: 21 FEB 2013
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Print ISBN: 9781405195829
Online ISBN: 9781118325360
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Keywords:
- Almodóvar's film;
- embodied intersubjectivity;
- La mala educación;
- prosthetic memory;
- witnessing
Summary
This chapter explores how La mala educación / Bad Education reflects on the way that cinema can function as a mode of witnessing and re-experiencing the traces of the traumatic past and of mediating between individual and collective experiences through a complex relationship between subjectivity, memory, and the ethics of the cinematic image. The author particularly interested in the manner in which Almodóvar's film manipulates the film medium as a generator of what has been defined by Alison Landsberg as “prosthetic memory”. “Embodied intersubjectivity” and “prosthetic memory” correlated with the transportability of memories and experiences, in Almodóvar's film.