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Book SynopsisPopular Spanish Film Under Franco is the first book of its kind to analyze cinematic comedy during the initial two decades of Francisco Franco's dictatorship. Its cultural studies approach - combining Gramsci, de Certeau and Bakhtin - interrogates the ambiguous nature of subversion and challenges common assumptions concerning post-war Spanish film.
Trade Review'Steven Marsh offers a thoughtful analysis of Spanish comedy during Francoism that makes us better understand the role of resistance played by popular culture...This is a stimulating book that paves the way for further research on comedy in the ideological arena.' - David Rodr?guez-Solás, Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies
Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Comedy and the Weakening of the State Tactics and Thresholds in Edgar Neville's Life on a Thread (1945) Metropolitan Masquerades: The Destabilization of Madrid in the Neville Trilogy Populism, the National-Popular and the Politics of Luis García Berlanga: Welcome Mister Marshall! (1952) Humor and Hegemony: Berlanga, the State and the Family in Plácido (1961) and The Executioner (1963) 'Making Do' or the Logic of the Ersatz Economy in the Spanish Films of Marco Ferreri The Pueblo Travestied in Fernando Fernán Gómez's The Strange Journey (1964) Conclusion: Gila's Telephone Notes Bibliography Filmography Index
