Details

Subject(s)

• Motion pictures—Spain—History [Browse]
• Motion picture actors and actresses—Spain—History [Browse]
• Motion picture acting—History [Browse]

Editor

• Allbritton, Dean [Browse]
• Flórez Melero, Alejandro, 1958- [Browse]
• Whittaker, Tom [Browse]

Summary note

With 15 essays by leading scholars of Spanish film, this work casts light on the manifold meanings, methods and influences of Spanish screen performance, from the silent era to the present day. In doing so, the book provides new readings of the work of significant Spanish actors and filmmakers. The fine-grained study of acting in each chapter also provides a means of exploring broader questions surrounding Spanish film practices, culture and society. The book is intended for both students and scholars of Spanish film alike, as well as to those more broadly interested in the history of screen acting.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 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 Peiro
• 2. Performance and gesture as crisis in La aldea maldita/The Cursed Village (Florian 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 Jose Luis Lopez Vazquez: 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-Hernandez
• 13. Disabling Bardem's body: the performance of disability and illness / Dean Allbritton
• 14. Body doubles: the performance of Basqueness by Carmelo Gomez and Silvia Munt / Rob Stone
• 15. Los amantes pasajeros/I'm So Excited! (2013): 'performing' la crisis / Maria M. Delgado.

Show 13 more Contents items

Other title(s)

Performance Spanish film

ISBN

• 9780719097720
• 071909772X

LCCN

2016591994

OCLC

946158529

Statement on language in description

Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage. Read more...