Humor in Latin American cinema

• Tác giả: Juan Poblete, Suárez Juana
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 1137543574
• ISBN-13: 978-1137543578
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 791.43617098 Motion pictures, radio, television
• Thông tin xuất bản: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource : , illustrations.
• Bộ sưu tập: Kiến trúc, nghệ thuật, hội họa
• ID: 157736
• Chủ đề: 1. Comedy films--History and criticism--Latin America; 2. Motion pictures--History--Latin America; 3. Wit and humor in motion pictures

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tóm tắt

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.