Mock Classicism: Latin American Film Comedy, 1930-1960

by Nilo Couret

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, Nin? Marshall, and Luis Sandrini, the author demonstrates aspects of Latin...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520296842
• ISBN13: 9780520296848
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.0"