Performance and Spanish film

Herausgeber: Allbritton, Dean; Whittaker, Tom; Melero, Alejandro

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Collection exploring in detail Spanish screen acting from the silent era to present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 604g
• ISBN-13: 9780719097720
• ISBN-10: 071909772X
• Artikelnr.: 45995122

Autorenporträt

Tom Whittaker is Senior Lecturer in Film and Spanish Studies at the University of Liverpool Dean Allbritton is Assistant Professor in Spanish at Colby College Alejandro Melero is Lecturer in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at Carlos III University, Madrid

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: approaching performance in Spanish film - Dean Allbritton,
Alejandro Melero, Tom Whittaker 1. Acting for the camera in Spanish film
magazines of the 1920s and 1930s - Eva Woods Peiró 2. Performance and
gesture as crisis in La aldea maldita/The Cursed Village (Florián Rey,
1930) - Sarah Wright 3. Exaggeration and nation: the politics of
performance in the Spanish sophisticated comedy of the 1940s - Stuart Green
4. The voice of comedy: Gracita Morales - Kathleen M. Vernon 5. The sounds
of José Luis López Vázquez: vocal performance, gesture and technology in
Spanish film - Tom Whittaker 6. The influence of Argentinian acting schools
in Spain from the 1980s - Carmen Ciller 7. Askance, athwart, aside: the
queer plays of actors, auteurs and machines - Brad Epps 8. The future of
nostalgia: revindicating Spanish actors and acting in and through Cine de
barrio - Duncan Wheeler 9. Performing the nation: mannerism and mourning in
Spanish heritage cinema - Sally Faulkner 10. Performing sex in Spanish
erotic films of the 1980s - Alejandro Melero 11. Becoming Mario:
performance and persona adaptation in Mario Casas's career - Alberto Mira
12. Performing fatness: oversized male bodies in recent Spanish cinema -
Santiago Fouz-Hernández 13. Disabling Bardem's body: the performance of
disability and illness - Dean Allbritton 14. Body doubles: the performance
of Basqueness by Carmelo Gómez and Silvia Munt - Rob Stone 15. Los amantes
pasajeros/I'm So Excited! (2013): 'performing' la crisis - Maria M. Delgado
Index