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Overview"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, Niní 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. " Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nilo CouretPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9780520296855ISBN 10: 0520296850 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 16 March 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Cantinflismo and Relajo's Peripheral Vision 22 2. The Call of the Screen: Nini Marshall and the Radiophonic Stardom of Argentine Cinema 68 3. Timing Is Everything: Sandrini's Stutter and the Representability of Time 111 4. Fictions of the Real: The Currency of the Brazilian Chanchada 153 5. Comedy Circulates Circuitously: Toward an Odographic Film History of Latin America 192 Notes 235 Selected Bibliography 263 Index 273ReviewsAuthor InformationNilo Couret is Assistant Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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