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Author:

Egea, Juan F.

Title:

Dark laughter : Spanish film, comedy, and the nation / Juan F. Egea.

Publisher:

The University of Wisconsin Press,

Copyright Date:

c2013

Description:

xii, 188 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Motion pictures, Spanish--History and criticism.
Comedy films--Spain--History and criticism.
Black humor--Spain.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-178) and index.

Contents:

Familiar questions -- Movement and paralysis, dissidence and identity : Ferreri's El cochecito -- Complicity dissected : Berlanga's El verdugo -- Don Jaime's laughter : humor and perversion in Viridiana -- Modernizing desire : Fern©Łn-G©đmiz's El extra©ło viaje -- Almod©đvar interlude : transitional laughter -- Back with a vengeance : laughing darkly in post-1992 Spain.

Series:

Wisconsin film studies

ISBN:

0299295435 (e-book)
9780299295431 (e-book)
0299295443 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780299295448 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)830992796

LCCN:

2013010413

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)