Performance and Spanish Film.
Dean. Allbritton
Bok Engelsk 2016 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (290 pages)
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: approaching performance in Spanish film -- About this book -- References -- 1 Acting for the camera in Spanish film magazines of the 1920s and 1930s -- The panorama of cinema magazines -- Stars and cameras: becoming and policing -- Acting: magic versus science -- Fotogenia -- Exploitation is horribly delightful -- Notes -- References -- 2 Performance and gesture as crisis in La aldea maldita/The Cursed Village (Florián Rey, 1930) -- Silent gesture in La aldea maldita (1930) -- Gesture and crisis -- Notes -- References -- 3 Exaggeration and nation: the politics of performance in the Spanish sophisticated comedy of the 1940s -- Introduction -- Exaggerated performance styles: supporting actors and romantic leads -- Media criticisms -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 The voice of comedy: Gracita Morales -- Women and comedy -- Funny women, funny voices -- Gracita Morales and Spanish comic traditions -- 'La chacha del cine español' -- Performing femininity -- Notes -- References -- 5 The sounds of José Luis López Vázquez: vocal performance, gesture and technology in Spanish film -- Polyphony and populism: vocal performance and post-synch sound -- Disciplining the voice: vocalising 'against type' -- In synch: direct sound and vocal performance -- Notes -- References -- 6 The influence of Argentinian acting schools in Spain from the 1980s -- Notes -- References -- 7 Askance, athwart, aside: the queer plays of actors, auteurs and machines -- Overacting in Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Fifth Floor Neighbour -- Retracting acting: a theoretical bender -- Underacting in The Holy Girl -- Notes -- References -- 8 The future of nostalgia: revindicating Spanish actors and acting in and through Cine de barrio.. - Towards a genealogy of Cine de barrio -- Actors and audiences, then and now -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 9 Performing the nation: mannerism and mourning in Spanish heritage cinema -- ImpersoNation -- Haunting and mourning -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 10 Performing sex in Spanish erotic films of the 1980s -- Notes -- References -- 11 Becoming Mario: performance and persona adaptation in Mario Casas's career -- Casas the leaner -- Casas the rock -- Bridging the gap: Casas's persona and the two Marios -- Notes -- References -- 12 Performing fatness: oversized male bodies in recent Spanish cinema -- Santiago Segura and the Torrente saga -- Javier Bardem in Los lunes al sol -- Antonio de la Torre in Gordos/Fat People -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 13 Disabling Bardem's body: the performance of disability and illness -- Notes -- References -- 14 Body doubles: the performance of Basqueness by Carmelo Gómez and Silvia Munt -- Notes -- References -- 15 Los amantes pasajeros/I'm So Excited! (2013): 'performing' la crisis -- Back to the 1980s: a drawing room farce in the air -- Politics and posturing -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.. - Collection exploring in detail Spanish screen acting from the silent era to present.
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| ISBN | 9781526107732
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