Mock Classicism : Latin American Film Comedy, 1930-1960 /

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"In Mock classicism Nilo Couret presents an alternate history of Latin American cinema that traces the popularity and cultural significance of film comedies as responses to modernization and the forerunners to a more explicitly political New Latin American Cinema of the 1960s. By examining the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Couret, Nilo, 1984- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Production and direction.
Motion pictures.
Motion picture actors and actresses.
Comedy films.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Cinema > Production et realisation > Amerique latine > 20e siecle.
Cinema > Amerique latine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Films comiques > Amerique latine > Histoire et critique > 20e siecle.
Motion pictures > Production and direction > Latin America > 20th century.
Motion picture actors and actresses > Latin America > 20th century.
Motion pictures > Latin America > History > 20th century.
Comedy films > Latin America > History and criticism > 20th century.
Latin America.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cantinflismo and Relajo's peripheral vision
  • The call of the screen: Niní Marshall and the radiophonic stardom of Argentine cinema
  • Timing is everything : Sandrini's stutter and the representability of time
  • Fictions of the real : the currency of the Brazilian Chanchada
  • Comedy circulates circuitously : toward an odographic film history of Latin America.

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