| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 222 pages) |
| Contents |
Comedy and the Weakening of the State -- Tactics and Thresholds in Edgar Neville's Life on a Thread (1945) -- Metropolitan Masquerades: The Destabilization of Madrid in the Neville Trilogy -- Populism, the National-Popular and the Politics of Luis Garc̕a Berlanga: Welcome Mister Marshall! (1952) -- Humor and Hegemony: Berlanga, the State and the Family in Pl̀cido (1961) and The Executioner (1963) -- 'Making Do' or the Logic of the Ersatz Economy in the Spanish Films of Marco Ferreri -- The Pueblo Travestied in Fernando Ferǹn G̤mez's The Strange Journey (1964) -- Conclusion: Gila's Telephone |
| Summary |
Thirty years after the death of Francisco Franco, Spain has yet to come to terms with its dictatorial past and the ghosts of its civil war. This pioneering volume explores comic cinema of the earliest and most repressive period of the Francoist regime and maps its evolution through to the mid-1960s. Largely ignored by critics who have misread cinematic production of the period as propaganda, the films discussed in this book suggest that the cultural agenda of the regime was weakened by the very same popular practices it sought to foster. Popular Spanish Film Under Franco adopts an original and innovative theoretical approach to the competing ideologies at work within Francoist culture (with regard to those in favour of the regime as well as its critics), while seeking to avoid simplistic Manichean clicȟs, and offers a sustained critique of today's cultural arbiters from both within Spain and abroad |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
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Filmography |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Spain -- History
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Fascism and motion pictures.
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Comedy films -- Political aspects -- Spain
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Film theory & criticism -- c 1945 to c 1960 -- Spain.
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Media studies -- c 1945 to c 1960 -- Spain.
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Cultural studies -- c 1945 to c 1960 -- Spain.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Performing Arts.
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Fascism and motion pictures
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Motion pictures
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Spain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2005049204 |
| ISBN |
9780230511873 |
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0230511872 |
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9781403941176 |
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1403941173 |
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