Performance and Spanish film

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

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 Argentinian 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: revindicating 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

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