Humor in Latin American Cinema (eBook)

Juan Poblete, Juana Suárez (Herausgeber)

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2016 | 1st ed. 2016
XIII, 279 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
978-1-137-54357-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Nilo Couret, University of Michigan, USA Gareth Williams, University of Michigan, USA Paula Inés Laguarda, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Argentina Diane Marting, University of Mississippi, USA Maurício de Bragança, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil Fernando Pagnoni, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina Juana Suárez,New York University, USA Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste, Georgia State University, USA Ignacio Sánchez Prado, Washington University in Saint Louis, USA Freya Schiwy, University of California, Riverside, USA

Autor

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).

Inhalt

Cinema and Humor in Latin America: An Introduction; Juan Poblete1. Luis Sandrini's Stutter, Early Argentine Film Comedy and the Representability of Time; Nilo Fernando Couret2. 'Comrades, There Are Moments in Life That Are Truly Momentary': Cantinflas and the Administration of Public Matters; Gareth Williams3. The Laugh of Niní Marshall. Comic Performance and Gender Performativity in Argentinean Classical Cinema; Paula Inés Laguarda4. The Early comedies of Tomás Gutiérrez Alea; Dianne Marting5. Backwardness and Modernity in the Rural Tradition of Mazzaropi Comedies; Maurício de Bragança6. Enrique Cahen Salaberry and Hugo Sofovich: Contrasting Directors and Strategies of Humor in Films Featuring Alberto Olmedo and Jorge Porcel; Fernando Pagnoni7. Colombian Popular Comedy for Dummies: The Nieto Roa and Dago García Producciones Formula; Juana Suárez8. Invasion of the Nacos! Mocking Social Prejudice in Contemporary Mexican Cinema; Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste9. Humorous Affects. Romantic Comedies in Contemporary Mexico; Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado10. Who's laughing now? Indigenous Media and the Politics of Humor; Freya Schiwy11. A Sense of Humor and Society in Three Chilean Comedies: Taxi para tres, Sexo con Amor, and Super, Todo Chile adentro; Juan Poblete

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.4.2016
• Reihe/Serie: New Directions in Latino American Cultures
• Reihe/Serie: New Directions in Latino American Cultures
• Zusatzinfo: XIII, 279 p.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Cinema • Comic • Film • Gender • Humour • Society • Tradition
• ISBN-10: 1-137-54357-4 / 1137543574
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-54357-8 / 9781137543578