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Author Couret, Nilo, 1984- author.

Title Mock classicism : Latin American film comedy, 1930-1960 / Nilo Couret.

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 279 pages)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cantinflismo and Relajo's peripheral vision -- The call of the screen: NinĂ­ Marshall and the radiophonic stardom of Argentine cinema -- Timing is everything : Sandrini's stutter and the representability of time -- Fictions of the real : the currency of the Brazilian Chanchada -- Comedy circulates circuitously : toward an odographic film history of Latin America.
Summary "In Mock classicism Nilo Couret presents an alternate history of Latin American cinema that traces the popularity and cultural significance of film comedies as responses to modernization and the forerunners to a more explicitly political New Latin American Cinema of the 1960s. By examining the linguistic play of comedians such as Cantinflas, Oscarito and Grande Otelo, NinĂ­ Marshall, and Luis Sandrini, the author demonstrates aspects of Latin American comedy that operate via embodiment on one hand and spatiotemporal emplacement on the other. Taken together, these parallel examples of comedic practice demonstrate how Latin American film comedies produce a 'critically proximate' spectator who is capable of perceiving and organizing space and time differently. Combining close readings of films, archival research, film theory, and Latin American history, Mock classicism rethinks classicism as a discourse that mediates and renders the world and argues that Latin American cinema became classical in distinct ways from Hollywood."--Provided by publisher.
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Subject Comedy films -- Latin America -- History and criticism -- 20th century.
Comedy films.
Latin America.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Motion pictures -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century.
Motion pictures.
History.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- Latin America -- 20th century.
Motion picture actors and actresses.
Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- Latin America -- 20th century.
Motion pictures -- Production and direction.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Couret, Nilo, 1984- Mock classicism. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] 9780520296848 (DLC) 2017048380
ISBN 9780520969162 (electronic book)
0520969162 (electronic book)
9780520296848 (hardcover alkaline paper)