Performance and Spanish film / edited by Dean Allbritton, Alejandro Melero, Tom Whittaker.

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 Peiró 2 Performance and gesture as crisis in La aldea maldita/The Cursed Village (Florián 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 José Luis López Vázquez: vocal performance, gesture and technology in Spanish film -- Tom Whittaker 6 The influence of Argentinean 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: re-vindicating 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-Hernández 13 Disabling Bardem's body: the performance of disability and illness -- Dean Allbritton 14 Body doubles: the performance of Basqueness by Carmelo Gómez and Silvia Munt -- Rob Stone 15 Los amantes pasajeros/I'm So Excited! (2013): 'performing' la crisis -- Maria M. Delgado Index.

Collection exploring in detail Spanish screen acting from the silent era to present.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In English.

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