Humor in Latin American cinema /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Poblete, Juan (Editor), Suárez, Juana (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Series:New directions in Latino American cultures.
Subjects:
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.