The Representation of Women in Pedro Almodovar's Cinema An Analysis of the Films Women on the Verge of Nervous Breakdown, All About My Mother and Volver

This study focuses on presentation of women in the Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's cinema. In the study,, women-based stories are preferred. By means of an analysis of women-based stroies, this study tries to explore strategies that provided fame to Spanich director Almodovar, such as 'women's movie director'. In that context, Almodovar's movies Mujere al borde de un alaque de nervios (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, 1988), Todo sobre mi madre (All About My Mother, 1998) and Volver (Volver, 2006) are analized based on feminist film theory. The movies chosen are defined under the following categories: women who are the subject and women's friendship, disappearing manhood, women's appearance in public space and security of private space. In this way, we can see that Amodovar doesn't reproduce dominant patriarchal codes; on the contrary, he reverses them.