Humor in Latin American cinema /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2016]
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| Series: | New directions in Latino American cultures.
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Table of Contents:
- Luis Sandrini's stutter, early Argentine film comedy and the representability of time / by Nilo Fernando Couret
- "Comrades, there are moments in life that are truly momentary": Cantinflas and the administration of public matters / by Gareth Williams
- The laugh of Nina Marshall: comic performance and gender performativity in Argentinean classical cinema / by Paula Inés Laguarda
- The early comedies of Tomás Gutierrez Alea / by Dianne Marting
- Backwardness and modernity in the rural tradition of Mazzaropi comedies / by Mauricio de Bragana
- Enrique Cahen Salaberry and Hugo Sofovich: contrasting directors and strategies of humor in films featuring Alberto Olmedo and Jorge Porcel / by Fernando Pagnoni
- Colombian popular comedy for dummies: the Nieto Roa and Dago Garcia producciones formula / by Juana Suárez
- Invasion of the nacos! mocking social prejudice in contemporary Mexican cinema / by Hector Fernandez l'Hoeste
- Humorous affects: romantic comedies in contemporary Mexico / by Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado
- Who's laughing now? indigenous media and the politics of humor / by Freya Schiwy
- A sense of humor and society in three Chilean comedies: Taxi para tres, Sexo con amor, and Super, todo Chile adentro / by Juan Poblete.