Performance and Spanish film

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, Penélope Cruz and Alfredo Landa, to Pedro Almodóvar, Carlos Saura and Alejandro Amenábar. 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.

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

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, Penélope Cruz and Alfredo Landa, to Pedro Almodóvar, Carlos Saura and Alejandro Amenábar. 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 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 Argentinean 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: re-vindicating 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