The decadent image of the journalist in Pedro Almodovar’s cinema
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Journalism and journalists play key roles in the cinema of Pedro Almodóvar. The director uses the character communicator with superficial presenters in most cases and occasionally precise serious informants. This study analyzes the presence of means of communication or journalists in his last 17 films and affects the prevalence of frivolity and satire before the camera as it is shown four emblematic titles to Ticos: Distant Heels (1991), Kika (1993) Talk to her (2002) and Return (2006). The data is extracted from the doctoral thesis The journalists in the Spanish cinema (1942-2012), in which the professional and personal profile of the informers which appear as protagonists or secondary in Spanish films is analyzed during the seventy years
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