Title Mock classicism : Latin American film comedy, 1930-1960 / Nilo Couret

Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 279 pages) 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 Summary "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 linguistic play of comedians such as Cantinflas, Oscarito and Grande Otelo, Niní Marshall, and Luis Sandrini, the author demonstrates aspects of Latin American comedy that operate via embodiment on one hand and spatiotemporal emplacement on the other. Taken together, these parallel examples of comedic practice demonstrate how Latin American film comedies produce a 'critically proximate' spectator who is capable of perceiving and organizing space and time differently. Combining close readings of films, archival research, film theory, and Latin American history, Mock classicism rethinks classicism as a discourse that mediates and renders the world and argues that Latin American cinema became classical in distinct ways from Hollywood."--Provided by publisher Analysis 1960s alternate history archival research cantinflas oscarito comedians comedic practice cultural significance embodiment film comedies film theory films grande otelo latin america latin american cinema latin american history linguistic play luis sandrini modernization new latin american cinema nini marshall popularity spatiotemporal emplacement Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 16, 2018) Subject Comedy films -- Latin America -- History and criticism -- 20th century Motion pictures -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century Motion picture actors and actresses -- Latin America -- 20th century Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- Latin America -- 20th century PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference. PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism. Comedy films Motion picture actors and actresses Motion pictures Motion pictures -- Production and direction Latin America Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2017050356 ISBN 9780520969162 0520969162

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