Performance and Spanish film

Tom Whittaker is Senior Lecturer in Film and Spanish Studies at the University of LiverpoolDean Allbritton is Assistant Professor in Spanish at Colby CollegeAlejandro Melero is Lecturer in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at Carlos III University, Madrid

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

Introduction: approaching performance in Spanish film - Dean Allbritton, Alejandro Melero, Tom Whittaker1. Acting for the camera in Spanish film magazines of the 1920s and 1930s - Eva Woods Peiró2. Performance and gesture as crisis in La aldea maldita/The Cursed Village (Florián Rey, 1930) - Sarah Wright3. Exaggeration and nation: the politics of performance in the Spanish sophisticated comedy of the 1940s - Stuart Green4. The voice of comedy: Gracita Morales - Kathleen M. Vernon5. The sounds of José Luis López Vázquez: vocal performance, gesture and technology in Spanish film - Tom Whittaker6. The influence of Argentinian acting schools in Spain from the 1980s - Carmen Ciller7. Askance, athwart, aside: the queer plays of actors, auteurs and machines - Brad Epps8. The future of nostalgia: revindicating Spanish actors and acting in and through Cine de barrio - Duncan Wheeler9. Performing the nation: mannerism and mourning in Spanish heritage cinema - Sally Faulkner10. Performing sex in Spanish erotic films of the 1980s - Alejandro Melero11. Becoming Mario: performance and persona adaptation in Mario Casas's career - Alberto Mira12. Performing fatness: oversized male bodies in recent Spanish cinema - Santiago Fouz-Hernández13. Disabling Bardem's body: the performance of disability and illness - Dean Allbritton14. Body doubles: the performance of Basqueness by Carmelo Gómez and Silvia Munt - Rob Stone15. Los amantes pasajeros/I'm So Excited! (2013): 'performing' la crisis - Maria M. DelgadoIndex