Humor in Latin American Cinema

2016. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-54945-7
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 279 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4728 g

Reihe: New Directions in Latino American Cultures

This book addresses a variety of regional humor traditions such as exploitation cinema, Brazilian chanchada, the Cantinflas heritage, the comedy of manners and light sexuality, iconic figures and characters, as well as a variety of humor registers evident in different Latin American films.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Poblete, Juan

Suárez, Juana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Cinema and Humor in Latin America: An Introduction; Juan Poblete
1. Luis Sandrini's Stutter, Early Argentine Film Comedy and the Representability of Time; Nilo Fernando Couret
2. 'Comrades, There Are Moments in Life That Are Truly Momentary': Cantinflas and the Administration of Public Matters; Gareth Williams
3. The Laugh of Niní Marshall. Comic Performance and Gender Performativity in Argentinean Classical Cinema; Paula Inés Laguarda
4. The Early comedies of Tomás Gutiérrez Alea; Dianne Marting
5. Backwardness and Modernity in the Rural Tradition of Mazzaropi Comedies; Maurício de Bragança
6. Enrique Cahen Salaberry and Hugo Sofovich: Contrasting Directors and Strategies of Humor in Films Featuring Alberto Olmedo and Jorge Porcel; Fernando Pagnoni
7. Colombian Popular Comedy for Dummies: The Nieto Roa and Dago García Producciones Formula; Juana Suárez
8. Invasion of the Nacos! Mocking Social Prejudice in Contemporary Mexican Cinema; Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste
9. Humorous Affects. Romantic Comedies in Contemporary Mexico; Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
10. Who's laughing now? Indigenous Media and the Politics of Humor; Freya Schiwy
11. A Sense of Humor and Society in Three Chilean Comedies: Taxi para tres, Sexo con Amor, and Super, Todo Chile adentro; Juan Poblete

Über Autor(innen)

Juan Poblete is Professor of Latin/o American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. He is the co-editor of Redrawing The Nation: National Identities in Latin/o American Comics (Palgrave, 2009) and Sports and Nationalism in Latin/o America (Palgrave, 2015).

Juana Suárez is Visiting Scholar at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, USA. She is the author of Critical Essays on Colombian Cinema: Cinembargo Colombia (Palgrave, 2012).