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I just came on this Almodovar piece in the NY Review of Books that focused on genre -- it's excellent. Click here.
Sample: "Pedro Almodóvar is a director who, over the course of a career that now spans a quarter-century, has famously loaded his films with references to mass entertainment, its producers and consumers; his characters tend to be directors, talk show hosts, novelists, toreros (and, in Talk to Her, a torera), actresses, journalists, publishers, dancers, fans—people who are frequently shown in the act of watching dances, plays, television shows, movies, bullfights, concerts. For this reason, exchanges in his films about the nature and merits of popular genres and their ability to represent reality are not to be taken casually."

That's what our goal is this semester -- getting "the nature and merits of popular genres..." Nicely said!