Popular Spanish Film Under Franco

Comedy and the Weakening of the State
2006. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-4039-4117-6
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 215 mm, Gewicht: 399 g

Popular Spanish Film Under Franco is the first book of its kind to analyze cinematic comedy during the initial two decades of Francisco Franco's dictatorship. Focusing on the intersection between popular culture and political populism, it breaks new theoretical ground in re-evaluating the policies of the regime and the tactics employed by those who sought to undermine it. Its cultural studies approach - combining Gramsci, de Certeau and Bakhtin - interrogates the ambiguous nature of subversion and challenges common assumptions concerning post-war Spanish film.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marsh, S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction 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 García Berlanga: Welcome Mister Marshall! (1952) Humor and Hegemony: Berlanga, the State and the Family in Plácido (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 Fernán Gómez's The Strange Journey (1964) Conclusion: Gila's Telephone Notes Bibliography Filmography Index

Über Autor(innen)

STEVEN MARSH teaches Film and Spanish Cultural Studies at the University of South Carolina, USA. Previously he lived in Madrid for 16 years. He is joint editor of (2004), an author on the international collaborative project , and is currently writing a book on the cultural politics of everyday life in the city of Madrid since 1975. He is co-editor of the journal