Performance and Spanish Film [Hardcover]

Performance and Spanish film is the first book to provide a detailed study of screen acting in Spanish film. With fifteen original essays by leading scholars of Spanish film, the book 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 bold new readings of the work of significant Spanish actors and filmmakers, from Javier Bardem, Pen?lope Cruz and Alfredo Landa, to Pedro Almod?var, Carlos Saura and Alejandro Amen?bar. The fine-grained study of acting in each chapter also provides a means of exploring broader questions surrounding Spanish film practices, culture and society. Performance and Spanish film will be essential reading for both students and scholars of Spanish film alike, as well as to those more broadly interested in the history of screen acting.

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 Peir?
2. Performance and gesture as crisis inLa aldea maldita/The Cursed Village(Flori?n 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 Jos? Luis L?pez V?zquez: 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,auteursand machines - Brad Epps
8. The future of nostalgia: re-vindicating Spanish actors and acting in and throughCine 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