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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255240103321

Titolo

Humor in Latin American Cinema / / edited by Juan Poblete, Juana Suárez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

9781137543578

1137543574

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 279 p.)

Collana

New Directions in Latino American Cultures, , 2634-520X

Disciplina

791.43/617098

Soggetti

Ethnology - Latin America

Culture

Motion pictures - History

Motion pictures, American

Motion pictures

Television broadcasting

Sex

Latin American Culture

Film and TV History

American Film and TV

Latin American Film and TV

Film and Television Studies

Gender Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

A cursory look at some of the Latin American movies with the highest attendance in the history of their respective national industries reveals that comedies have been extraordinarily successful. Surprisingly, the cultures of Latin America have produced little historiographical or critical material investigating their rich past and current production at the intersection of humor and cinema. 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, as well as a variety of humor registers evident in different Latin American films.