Humor in Latin American Cinema [electronic resource] /
Poblete, Juan.editor.
Suárez, Juana.editor.
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.
Includes index.
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.
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.
Ethnology—Latin America.
Motion pictures—History.
Motion pictures—United States.
Motion pictures, American.
Motion pictures and television.
Sociology.
Latin American Culture.
Film History.
American Cinema and TV.
Latin American Cinema and TV.
Screen Studies.
Gender Studies.